Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Fawn

I swallow blown-glass fruit because it shines
and you have put it out on the table
for me, rows of peaches and lemons
with skins wetter than whale eyeballs.
My tongue excretes the taste of buttercream
heavy with yolks, flush onto stabbing,
a tie-died innocence, a sunset
slipping away.

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