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3025

Dean Dome directly
Overhead, I squeeze to speed
This blood donation

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2850

Warm pint of blood cools
On the collapsible bed—
“Hold your arm straight up”

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2426

Finger prick: first blood
Wiped clean with gauze, new blood squeezed
Into clear plastic

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2405

Small bit of lost skin
Sticks to the baby’s hair, blood
Barely fills the scrape

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2382

Four elbow-smashed teeth
Cave in, dangling from archwire
Tinged with top lip blood

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2329

Horsefly circling
A small pool in search of blood
Four grown adults flail

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2216

Iodine circle
Grows over two marker lines
Slight pinch, blood fills tubes

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1976

No fireflies tonight
Deer blood on a dark highway
Half fills the right lane

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1974

3 mL of stye
Pus fills a plastic syringe
Blood on paper towels

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1968

Blood and water change
My world in a held-breath push
Our baby arrives

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