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Michael Symmons Roberts, from "Corpus" (2004)

This poem evokes the religious connotations of the Anchovy. — The Schoolmarm

. . . So the martyrs took the lamb.
It tasted rich, steeped in essence
Of anchovy. They picked it clean
And found within, a goose, its pink
Beak in the lamb's mouth like a tongue. . . .

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