The small of her back,
where the downy hair stands upright
like wheat in the summer light
made me think: pistil
and stamen, as if back in
biology class.
Chloroform, scalpel,
frogs, worms–what else did we cut
up so clumsily?
What a way to keep
young minds off reproduction–
repellent odors,
blood and guts, when the
real but innocent thing was
bent over her work
at the next desk.
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