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Robert S. Pesich
Recommendation: maggot therapy for wound debridement
What is it about the healthy
that these little buggers should desire instead
only the dying and the dead
for their sustenance in the wound,
the burned margins offering as much perhaps:
fragile connectives, essential
salts and sugars of our tissues,
blood and oblivions, their embraces
evidencing just out of sight.
© Robert S. Pesich, all rights reserved. This poem first appeared in the Spring 2014 edition of Porter Gulch Review
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