'Taking Myself in My Teeth'
Virginia R. Terris
from issue 64, Winter 1975, The Paris Review.
Taking myself in my teeth
I begin to rip away the bandage of my skin
unrolling it first from my arms
around my head and throat and then down
my torso thighs and feet.
I unbind myself toward my bones
and among my bones the organs I have never seen.
I strip them too.
What have I been disemboweled for?
Where are the gods I was told I was made of?
The demons?
Where is the mind this poem comes from?
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