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The Bloodletter 2: (He is Beheaded)
Timothy Tarkelly
They think it’s like plucked barge strings
heaving gorges,
though sound lands nowhere.
Blood,
poking through poultry leather.
All that is left is calyx
to burn in the sun
and take its lazy drift
down the Styx,
or Milky Way.