ENVIRONMENTAL Poem: Surgery, by Justin D’Alesandro

when i was thirteen
i used to pull rocks from creeks
opened them up – watched
as they remembered how to breathe
surgery for an old body
as a payment the creek would let me drink
a part of you for my work – in me
cause a riot after
vomiting all of our operation
like a parasite i’d go back for more
i was so young
i wanted to perform surgery to save anything

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