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National Poetry Month: Rachel Carlson reads Transmission
Transmission
drag a scoop across icy innards
scrape it hollow and stark
as the event horizon
of an ice cream headache
run the bow of your nostalgia
across cat-gut strings
make your teeth hum
with childhood frequencies
until your emotions squelch
moist as canned meat
with its pink jelly lubricant
sucking at aluminum walls
your soft placenta plops on a hard slab
leaving your body
pitched and hollow
the tin whistle of vacancy
reverberating like a bad dream
coming to an end
lay down a fossil record
of your boiled bones
rendered clean and clarion as surgical instruments
cutting away at genetic code
until the coroner closes the door
Rachel Carlson is a Red River College Creative Communications student with a passion for writing and media production. Her book reviews have appeared online in The Winnipeg Review and in print with Herizons magazine.
The Winnipeg Free Press will be running poems by Manitoba poets every weekday in April to celebrate National Poetry Month. The NPM in the WFP Project was edited by Ariel Gordon.