One-fifth of my blood surges through my placenta/
as we speak—//
a temporary organ transmitting life between two bodies,/
a two-faced, double-feeding,//
Author
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Cassie Pruyn is the author of the poetry collection Lena, winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and finalist for the Audre Lorde Award. Her poems have appeared in AGNI Online, The Normal School, The Los Angeles Review, Poet Lore, The Common, and others.