Bruised fruit


from the ABC set Poems of the Middle

Bruised fruit falls together
frail flesh felled
calls deep upon itself

It is a sweetly bitter end
this rolling into
a lull-time, a sifting down
a jostling of done pleasure

It is a change of skin
a silken split
to pour, strange succour
this late, late flowering

It is an intersection
a falling free, without
a gravity.

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Comments

Doeslittle | February 25, 2008 - 22:09

Very lovely.