Calves plump like a shoulder roast,
adrenaline thumping in a wolfish room
Have you ever seen a fibula
picked clean of its fat flesh and prickled skin
Teeth tore so cleanly
Teeth worn so manly
-forks in a famine
And mother howls more over the fate of the fangs
than the wound
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Lannie Stabile (she/her) was a finalist for the 2019/2020 Glass Chapbook Series and semifinalist for the Button Poetry 2018 Chapbook Contest. She is a three-time Best of the Net 2019 nominee. Works are published/forthcoming in Entropy, Glass Poetry, 8 Poems, Pidgeonholes, Okay Donkey, and more. Lannie currently holds the position of Managing Editor at Barren Magazine.