In Vitro Specimens

She is a good patient, carries her body like a brighter coat.

She is a good patient, carries her body

like a brighter coat. Her throat,

the please, dirty little nail

buried inside. Records her cycle

in a red notebook—

numbers grow cellular

across the page. Not enough

hormones. Not enough

to name the infinite

miniature faces flowering.

Division is a lesser hope.

A scrim cast across the coastline.

She is a slow dog. Her tongue

tips in the wanting

even a single stone holds.

CARRIE BENNETT is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow and author of biography of water, The Land Is a Painted Thing, Lost Letters and Other Animals, and several chapbooks from dancing girl press. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches writing at Boston University. She lives with her family in Somerville, MA.

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