Virginia R. Terris - Taking Myself In My Teeth

Taking myself in my teeth
I begin to rip away the bandage of my skin
unrolling it first from my arms
around my head and throat and then down
my torso thighs and feet.

I unbind myself toward my bones
and among my bones the organs I have never seen.
I strip them too.

What have I been disemboweled for?
Where are the gods I was told I was made of?
The demons?

Where is the mind this poem comes from?