Nan Fry

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Nan Fry is an American poet who lives in Washington, DC. Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies and journals. Fry is the author of several books of poetry, including Relearning The Dark, published by Washington Writers Publishing House. Some of her poems also appeared in a series of posters in the Washington and Baltimore transit systems during the Poetry Society of America's Poetry in Motion program. Fry has taught in the Academic Studies Department at the Corcoran College of Art & Design for over twenty years.)

The Best Poem Of Nan Fry

'Pear'

Pear,


you hang from your tree

like a teardrop grown solid,

like snow with a freckled skin.

When the handless maiden

came to you in moonlight, hungry,

she stretched up and took you

into her mouth.



Her father had sold her

to the devil and lopped off her hands,

but you bent to her, Pear,

and offered yourself, breast

and milk both, the earth

grown pendulous and sweet.

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