In high school biology we dissected our way through the animal phyla, slicing into specimens that had been ordered for us from a catalog and whose blood had been replaced with formaldehyde for the greater convenience of scholars. I had previously thought of myself as squeamish but I turned out not to be, or at least not outrageously so. What was inside things, I admitted to myself, was worth seeing, no matter how appalling it might be.
spring rain
the worms
come to the surface
waiting for the future I cut a worm in half
segmented worm
the war longer than it looks
on tv
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That dissection becomes the true teacher, so well seen in this haibun.
biology
to follow all the pathways
different maps