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Stonefruit

To you whom I've hurt
not meaning to

I offer this plum this drupe
no shell but a thin skin purpled

I tender to your mouth the muscle
the sweet sympathetic scar-tissue

surrounding the stone the seed
which wants to be buried


Submitted by Southerndeb

Submitted: Monday, January 13, 2003

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  • Sangbid Kundu (8/15/2009 2:12:00 AM)

    IT IS A NONSENSE POEM DEVOID OF ANY FEELINGS, THOUGHTS FCK U

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