about the author
Claire Scott is an award-winning poet who has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize (2013 and 2014). She was also a semi-finalist for both the 2014 Pangaea Prize and the 2014 Atlantis Award. Claire was the grand prize winner of The Maine Review’s 2015 White Pine Writing
Contest. Her first book of poetry, Waiting to Be Called, was recently published by IF SF Publishing.
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Claire Scott
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The table set
silver instruments in place
steel needles, skill saws
bowls of restive leeches
all under the glare
of fluorescent light
sorcerers in surgical gowns
green slippered feet
wear masks of rats
or ravens
the room echoes with
squeaks and caws
of anticipation
the floor littered
with feathers
and bones
sorcerers perch on
stiff metal chairs
straighten their masks
assess their meal
touch clamps and clips
scissors and scalpels
with ravenous fingers
softly whisper
count backward
from one hundred