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For Jason
December 5th, 2022
Poem by Italo Ferrante
Photograph by Maya Heins
Belly acoustics is
my area of expertise.
I instruct lovers
to file me as
radio-opaque,
constantly floating,
shaped like a crow’s foot.
I like my coffee
black & complex.
Sugar makes my
desire ultralight.
Salt makes it dappled.
I ask you to absolve
& dissolve me.
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