Danielle Lea Buchanan

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Snap Pea

Sperm packet .75 cent at feed store. Finger 2 inch deep garden hole. Roll sperm packet like toothpaste tube. Squeeze semen in soil. Stuff radish in garden hole. Kill semen odor. Prevent possum. Construct chicken wire trellis. Hammer wooden stake. Wait. Penis head shoot through soil. Photosynthesis: Sun burn to sugar. Penis eat sugar. Penis pump. Grow. Penis erect up chicken wire. Penis climb chicken wire. Penis weave in/out of chicken wire. Wrap penis in bird net. Prevent pecking. Put condom on snap pea. Practice safe pollination. Use glove. Pull pubic hair. Yank weed root. Improve air circulation. Prevent penis wilt. Clip penis. Under 10 inch retain Vit B6. Spray aphids off penis. When bulge, pluck penis from vine. Rinse penis in colander. Snap! penis in two. Shell penis. Pull penis hair back like zipper. Unzip penis. Penis split in two. Boil penis shell for vegetable stock. Eat green sperm pod raw. Extend lifetime of legume. Can penis in mason jar. Winter, penis in chicken wire wither. Winter, snap pea die.

Dumpling

Sometimes I imagine a God. Sometimes I imagine God. Sometimes I imagine something in a deep freezer sitting on a silver milking stool. This something has breath and blows little frost clouds as it works. This something unpeels me because I am a flat wonton wrapper skin sheath stretched out. Inside my wonton this something puts: lungs, carrots, black fungus, spine, cabbage, esophagus. This something dips its thumb in egg yolk and runs its finger down my back. This something squishes my private V dough to almost close me. This something fork presses hands and feet and blow holes. My mother’s uterus is a deep fryer. Amniotic fluid hot Crisco I’m spitting. He put his tongs around my neck. He put his tongs around my neck and pulled.