Poetry

On Debarking

Manhattan
You and what is
Your beagle, at

The moment
Peels off
The bark
From what’s not a
Tree, careful
Like Paul Warfield
Tibbets tickled, handled
That ticking Little Boy

Here’s your little
Boy. Now, peel off that
Terribly vocal cord. Not
One word, ventriculo
Cordectomy, from
Your dog

Mara-Daria Cojocaru