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Cleaning BluegillsAuthor(s): Larry GraySource: Notre Dame English Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter, 1969/1970), p. 48Published by: The University of Notre DameStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40066357 .

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GLEANING BLUEGILLS

48 NOTRE DAME ENGLISH JOURNAL

June-bugs beat on the screen to see this dissection of bluegills, in a blue pan.

Of course it's not mean to twist the knife. Death1 s clean and the fish in stun

of belly -up need no hand to end them. Scrape, rasp, and one last spinal tap

need no excuse or mention. Their blue sheen has no extension. Headless, down to fillet,

Down to the thinnest bone, the fish are content and say nothing. And the carver's alone.

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