"Underbelly"

25 September 2019: Really liking this poem, from the poem-a-day email.

Here's an excerpt from the beginning:

"Wouldbelove, do not think of me as a whetstone
until you hear the whole story:

In it, I’m not the hero, but I’m not the villain either
so let’s say, in the story, I was human

and made of human-things: fear
and hands, underbelly and blade..."