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Eat Their Own

Biologists have found that more than 1,300 species of animals will make meals of their own families.

—Newspaper Item

Deepest night and the growls

you wake to are of the belly

not the throat, that ache

ripples from the gut rather

than from that mythical heart

the songwriters celebrate,

muscle pulsating, waiting

to be fed.

Heartburn is a condition

of digestion, not emotion.

Still, the temptation

to spin on spine’s axis

to your partner defenceless

in sleep is strong, nibbling

at lips that cannot protest,

gorging yourself on willing flesh,

blind mother turning in the nest

driven by something deeper

than hunger, devouring

placentas of love.