The Dodo Heart Museum | Kelly Weber

Kelly Weber is the author of the debut poetry collection We Are Changed to Deer at the Broken Place (Tupelo Press, 2022). Her work has received Pushcart nominations and has appeared or is forthcoming in The Laurel Review, Brevity, The Missouri Review, The Journal, Palette Poetry, Southeast Review, Passages North, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Colorado State University and lives in Colorado with two rescue cats. More of her work can be found at kellymweber.com.   _______________________________________________   A Girl Born with Musk Deer Teeth  Feral girl, she lived in a small house where she sucked on hearts and her fingers when she burned them. Wild thing, sometimes she took the moon under her tongue and laid it jagged, blue, raw on the floor to study. Living in the rows and rows of empty houses of the suburbs, she treated the view out the window and the furniture inside the house as the strangest of places. She crouched on the table and ran her fingers over the grooves, studi