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Emma Gawlinski

Man-o-gram

Sundown, the hour of Victorian darkness.

Early winter. The centre is on a street

named after a serial murderer.

Take your top off. The mammographer

is pale and gaunt. You scan his arms

for needle marks. Take your top off.

You didn’t expect a man. Come close

to the machine.

Emma lives in Barcelona. She has published poems in Mslexia magazine, Yellow Arrow Journal, American Journal of Nursing, Ink, sweat and tears and Under the Radar and Under Your Pillow poetry anthology.

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