“Still Life with Heart Extracted from the Body of a Horse” by Matthew Olzmann

A poem by alumnus Matthew Olzmann (poetry, ’09) appears at Muzzle Magazine:

Question: what has two heads, yellow teeth
and eyes made of grape jelly?

What has green stripes, nostrils that flare like caves
and a tail that dissolves like a braid of smoke?

At the community center in the center
of Detroit, the kids draw the strangest horses.

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