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dancing girl press, 2013
$7.00 Jessica Ankeny's poems can be found in Menacing Hedge, Spillway, Relief Journal, LIES/ISLE and elsewhere. She is from Albuquerque, New Mexico and currently lives in Brooklyn with her cat, Joni Mitchell. The Trick to Pretending You Are Not Writing to an Audience It must be boiled. The alternative is burying outside or in a terrarium with beetles but the possibility of damage is higher and therefore boiling is recommended. Regardless, don’t merely clean or the marrow may rot and cause an unpleasant odor. Pieces of flesh and nasal cavity will rise to the surface while boiling, this is normal. After two hours remove from water and use needle-nose pliers to pull extra muscle and brain out. Soak in hydrogen peroxide. After bleaching is complete mount to wood and hang. |