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Karen Klein founded teXtmoVes, a poetry/dance collaborative, performing in concert halls, art galleries, and libraries since 2016. Her lyric poems and haiku have been published nationally and internationally, most recently in SLANT. She is a member of Steeple Street Poets and is working on her first chapbook.

Yemen

Karen Klein

sacred texts are often

found in forms of scrolls

tightly wound so that

their truths are wrapped

into the center in the way

the truths of bones are in

their deep channels of

marrow

life source of

new blood cells

in the way the humerus is

wrapped in the

fleshy shawl of the

upper arm

soft when squeezed

bone hard underneath

in the way when the

soft shawl of flesh

eats itself

leaving its hard

bone core

with a skin cover

stretched

to a taut

translucence

— Karen Klein

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