Holly Day is a travel writing instructor living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her husband and two children. Her most recent nonfiction books are Music Theory for Dummies, Music Composition for Dummies, and Walking Twin Cities.

Rabbits (December 20, 2009. Issue 12.)

slit up the skin along the forearms
peel the flesh back to reveal
so many colors: purple, blue, bright red. Throw
the body into the pot, let the water
heat to boiling. All along the long, skinny limbs

the colors fade, turn brown
translucent webs of sinew dissolve
into broth. The torn flesh curls
away from the bone, reveals even more:
dirty white, the yellow knobs of cartilage.

This is how it always ends.