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She sat on a shelf	A
her breasts two bellies	B
on her poked out belly	C
on which the navel looked	D
like a sucked in mouth	E
her knees bent and apart	F
her long left arm raised	G
with the large hand knuckled	H
to a bar in the ceiling	I
her right hand clamping	I
the skinny infant to her chest	J
its round pale new	K
soft muzzle hunting	I
in the brown hair for a nipple	L
its splayed tiny hand picking	I
at her naked dirty ear	M
Twisting its little neck	N
with tortured ecstatic eyes	O
the size of lentils it looked	D
into her severe close set	P
solemn eyes that beneath bald	Q
eyelids glared dull lights	R
in sockets of leather	S
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She twitched some chin hairs	T
with pain or pleasure	S
as the baby mouth found and	U
yanked at her nipple	L
its pink nailed jointless	T
fingers wandering her face	T
tangled in the tufts	T
of her cliffy brows	T
She brought her big	V
hand down from the bar	W
with pretended exasperation	X
unfastened the little hand	Y
and locked it within her palm	Z
while her right hand	Y
with snag nailed forefinger	S
and short sharp thumb raked	A2
the new orange hair	B2
of the infant s skinny flank	C2
and found a louse	T
which she lipped and	U
thoughtfully crisped	U
between broad teeth	D2
She wrinkled appreciative	E2
nostrils which without a nose	T
stood open damp holes	T
above the poke of her mouth	E
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She licked her lips flicked	U
her leather eyelids	T
then suddenly flung	F2
up both arms and grabbed	U
the bars overhead	U
The baby s scrabbly fingers	T
instantly caught the hair	B2
as if there were metal rings there	B2
in her long stretched armpits	T
And as she stately swung	F2
and then proudly more swiftly	C
slung herself from corner	S
to corner of her cell	G2
arms longer than her round	U
body short knees bent	U
her little wild haired	U
poke mouthed infant hung	F2
like some sort of trophy	C
or decoration or shaggy medal	L
shaped like herself but new	K
clean soft and shining	I
on her chest	U

May Swenson

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