Noor Jafari graduated with her MFA in poetry and will be attending medical school next year. Noor's work appears in River Styx Magazine, Poetry is Currency, and the anthology Woman, Life, Freedom: Poems. She’s currently trying to learn how to solve a Rubik’s cube under two minutes.

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"Microglia Isolation" and "Genotyping"

By NOOR JAFARI

I snip their heads off. /
They feel it /
for only an instant