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Lee Peterson 
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Bodies
 
i.
 
Esmée says
the strawberry juice spilled
on the cutting board
 
looks like blood.                       
I say food
can be beautiful.
 
She says—​
like bodies?
 
ii.
 
Esmée writes:
 
I am come
ing to your
City to ask
you a qeschun
 
and you may
not no what
it is?





Lee Peterson is the author of Rooms and Fields: Dramatic Monologues from the War in Bosnia (Kent State University Press). Her poetic, research, and community interests center on issues of human rights, displacement and migration, motherhood, and the female body and female desire. She teaches at Penn State Altoona and lives in Central Pennsylvania.




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