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
poem by Rodney Jack
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