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Rodney Jack - 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

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Stonefruit - Comments and Information

Poet: Rodney Jack
Poem: Stonefruit
Volume: Chelsea 68
Poem of the Day: Jun 4 2006

Comment 1 of 1, added on June 4th, 2006 at 6:40 PM.

compliments to the poet short and straight to the point. It opens a window of vision...congrates

lar from Australia

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