THE WORD (CONTAINS THE HEART)

The vessels have been filled with red latex
and the mouth with blue. The first branch
contains the bypass. Insert one blade of scissors through;
cut. Identify the structures. Summarize the common duct system.

Use your pig and also a pig of the opposite sex.
Use a needle or the point of scissors, not a blunt probe,
to enable the opening. Open the jaw wide enough
the glottis and epiglottis are exposed. Uncoiled,

a blind pouch holds a fetal word. Inject the word
with a colored latex. After the word is born,
blood (rubber) sex serves upside-down systems.
Cut the sides of the mouth. Tie one front leg

of the animal with a string. With enlargements,
carefully peel the brownish skin away. The word
projects up, same as above (different pig).
Lift the word to reveal internal organs.

Observe the light-colored passage (to head).


(a found poem of sorts, culled from a biological document
about dissecting fetal pigs)