Cadence Collective: Long Beach Poets

Featuring poets from and near Long Beach, California

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Vacuum sealed heart

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By Fernando Gallegos

I’m sure
It was meant to be
Formaldehyde, Novec fluids
Or some other preservative
That would keep this heart
whole, for a lifetime
Instead
Cold blood

the no longer
beating heart
Floats
In the vacuum sealed
Jar

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