Wednesday, July 17, 2024

pulp (2014)

  

The pulp fills my mouth

As a bite through the skin,

As sweet and tender as

I imagined when plucked

The plum from the box,

Dew dripping from it

As I plunge in

Only not as cool as thought

This flesh would be,

Warm against the flat

Of my tongue

I am reluctant to swallow,

This embrace, this taste

This consumption I ache

To achieve, my mouth

Filled to the prim by it all,

But I still want more,

Another bite, taking all

That I can get into me,

Thinking I won’t get more

This hunger, this needed,

The emptiness I ache to fill

One precious bite at a time.


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