By Sophie Williams
Art by Sabrina Eager
TO-DO
to grow shame, echoed
on either side of the breast-bone,
and, while chopping green apples,
to harbor a distant fancy:
to take a small, well-sharpened knife
and slip the blade above the ribs,
tenderly, under the skin
to make a swift cut behind
the grotesque bulb,
cut it cleanly off - and then do it twice,
to gently slice the twin.
to hold a fleshy globe in each palm
apart from the tidier chest,
to cut one into thin slices,
wring those out, into purer juice;
to mince the other, in fine portions,
and scatter the bits outside,
with the compost,
supposing that it could grow
more decently elsewhere.
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