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Any skink
you ask
would say
my blue tail—
What part
of yourself
would you
throw off
the sled
to the wolves
like the groom
did the bride
in the story?
The knife-
thrower’s board
is in the back
room at Good-
will. Versions
of the dead
keep showing
up like a motif
in the life
of the groom.
It can’t see
the new tail
that grows back,
the skink, but
it feels its center
of gravity shift
away from
the sky and closer
to the dirt.
