salami

 

 

Philip Levine

 

Stomach of goat, crushed
sheep balls, soft full
pearls of pig eyes,
snout gristle, fresh earth,
worn iron of trotter, slate
of Zaragoza, dried cat heart,
cock claws. She grinds
them with one hand and
with the other fists
mountain thyme, basil,
paprika, and knobs of garlic.
And if a tooth of stink thistle
pulls blood from the round
blue marbled hand ...

 

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On Philip Levine's "Salami"

 

    Stomach, the seat of our most basic, precognitive desires (hunger) and responses ( “gut reaction”), aptly opens a stanza rife with the smells and flavors of Spanish cuisine...

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