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Christina Lloyd

Christina Lloyd was born in Hong Kong and raised in Manila and San Francisco. She holds a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University. Her work appears in various publications, including Poetry Daily, Poetry Ireland, Poet Lore, Epoch and The North. Her debut collection, Women Twice Removed, is forthcoming from Sixteen Rivers Press.

Operating Theater

Because your lobes filled with calcium crystals,
black mortar, doctors clustered round
your eleventh rib,cut away flesh and fat
to remove your tainted kidney.They excised everything
that sounded like flower parts:tubules, capsules, glomerulus.
A moth-eaten calyx. Calyces.The puckered hollow
at your side still obliges my prodding child-like fingers.

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