Pegasus Autopsy
By Julio Pazos Barrera
It’s a spacious chamber.
Well lit.
A light that refracts the distant woodland.
Over the table lies
the body and the wings
outspread
like sails of a shipwreck.
They’ve stitched together the carnage
with no other motive
than something comparable to mercy.
Soon the volunteers will arrive
and they’ll take the body,
including the wings
to the landfill.
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