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Fall 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 4 • Rural Spaces |

Fig Rennet

By Ian U Lockaby 

		o	separation 	o the fat 	  o the way 	          o the  whey

  in you  	 	              a way  inside of you—		    the whey

  				       separated	by the	thin	            fruitskin

	     holding    	           the waspy
	     					            bed of	muskysweet   papules

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Ian U Lockaby is the author of Defensible Space / if a crow —  (Omnidawn, 2024) and A Seam of Electricity (Ghost Proposal, 2024). His poems and translations have been or will be published in Fence, Bennington Review, Ecotone, Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, Circumference, and elsewhere. Lockaby edits the online journal mercury firs, and with poet fahima ife, coedits the micropress LUCIUS. He lives in New Orleans.

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