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Free verse № 3595

Orange

Member since 2002 · Posted 9 Jul 2002 · 2 comments

Orange, you in your nippled, naveled flesh. I notice you roll just a quarter turn to the left never sitting still straight-faced and fresh. You said this conversation's over before I even sat down. So I stood, peeling away at your latent discontent. I know you. I know you, you Floridian with that slick, silent skin wrapped around your succulent flesh. Let me swallow your seeds, let me nibble your nectar. As I promise not to spit, a word of you out.

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[7] nentwined 9-Jul-02/5:58 PM Reply
very cute. reminds me of an exercise in berkeley's lower division poetry course. :)
[6] wordherd 4-Aug-02/7:55 PM Reply
nice imagry and a play with line breaks might be good