Salpingectomy

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Specimen number one:
left fallopian tube,
ligation. Cassette 1A.

White lights dance
in a jar
of salt water.

5 centimeters in
length, 0.6 centimeters
in diameter. Labeled.

Spotted fawns kick
dark, wet grass
in a thunderstorm.

Specimen number two:
right fallopian tube,
ligation. Cassette 2A.

Is this how
castrati are made?
My throat burns.

5.2 centimeters in
length, 0.6 centimeters
in diameter. Labeled.

The music stops,
the king’s eyelashes
wet with tears.

Received in formalin –
fimbriated fallopian tubes.
Serosa pink, smooth.

Fireflies take needles
to the night.
Summer bleeds. Silently.

No diagnostic abnormalities.
Pre-op diagnosis:
admission for sterilization.

It’s July. I
will spill blood
for no one.

On cut section,
the lumen ranges
stellate to pinpoint.