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Down by Erin Elizabeth Smith

hannahvwarren's review

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5.0

"That first love in Oxford —
one live oyster on a fisherman’s boat.
A child palate of potato, string
cheese turned. What a cook would kill
for now—not just pepper and pig,
but flamboyantly red
marrow in Singapore stalls,
Ecuadorian goat brain that sizzles
in the cigarette dark streets.
One whole cobra—blood, bile,
its beating heart in white ramekin."
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