Textbook & Absence (Anatomy) Poem by Catherine Barnett

Textbook & Absence (Anatomy)



At school he studies the human body:
aorta, valve, muscle, vein.
At home he redesigns it
out of cardboard and twine
until it looks like a coat he might hang
on a hook with other missing coats.

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