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Honorable Mention
Ultrasound
Treezaa (T. E. Ballard)

In the moment before
a screen held your flesh and you were nothing
except gray, fading images and the intern
checked organs like a grocery list: lung,
heart, liver. I did not understand the meaning of seed
how a thin line of cord could connect or destroy.
You were nothing but the slight shudder
below a rib, the soft shape of leg, a sudden kick.
The buzz of a machine became your name
until with a finger, this woman
drew the two lines with her hands
and said, this is where a penis
should be, but here
you can see the flat land, the black
of an ovary. She named you girl, female
marked the small box with a pen.

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