How to Crack a Crab or Edit a Poem
Immerse in hot water.
Boil, steam
or braise until pink.
Remove unwanted
parts by snap-
ping. Pry
open apron and lose
it. Twist off
the shell and extract
the core, the heart, the body meat.
Avoid the mallet
and discard
the shell, the
tendons, the juices
the extraneous
bits. And there
you have
it, finger-picked clean,
a
cracked-crab or poem
on the very same theme.
on the very same theme.
Copyright with Cathy Leonard 2016
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