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Transmogrify

Elizabeth Helmich
2 min readFeb 16, 2018

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From the original Battle Angel — source

What if I quartered you up
Like a grapefruit with my spoon,
Slicing between sweet and pith

As if I could eat one
Without your sour notes pinching
The back of my tongue

What would it feel like
To have me without
This flesh over this bone

The smooth place
Your thumbs rides between hip
Joint and thigh

Finally let’s you
Carve yourself
Into my sunken ilium

Would it excite you
To know you’d finally
Rewired your way back in

Since it’s the way
You let yourself fall apart
That enthralls me

Watching you
Unravel, in chunks and hunks
Of human

Utterly lost
In the wildness
Of raw circuits

I forget who am with you,
And you understand that I don’t
Want to be pieced back together

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Elizabeth Helmich
Elizabeth Helmich

Written by Elizabeth Helmich

Holes and a series of rabbits — my debut poetry collection — now available! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089RRRGXX/

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