Shot

Through that part

we've all been through

the animal self

When the physical 

seems neither

animal

vegetable

or mineral

and the wound is too great

to seem real

time slows down to that moment

when we realize

wheat we dread is true

we're going to live

February 6, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: Animal, Part, Physical, Self, Shot, Through, Through (yes, pulled two of the same word).

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