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  • Foal Song
  • Peter LaBerge (bio)

See this salt-lickedwound

this buried foalit is not real

the bed-sheet I usedto bury it

I pretend is immortalI pretend this

mouth is an unfinishedprayer

see the navel of this riveris beautiful

this digestion is notreal

these eyes are notblinking

I pretend to carvethrough

this cataract of iceto fill [End Page 225]

the inward caveof the mouth

see the dirt of thesehands

the wince of theseroots [End Page 226]

Peter LaBerge

Peter LaBerge is the author of the chapbook Hook (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). His work appears in Beloit Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, Best New Poets 2014, DIAGRAM, and Indiana Review, among others. He lives in Philadelphia, is a student at the University of Pennsylvania and the Founder & Editor-in-Chief of The Adroit Journal.

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