Stonefruit - A poem by Rodney Jack


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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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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 More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, Stonefruit, has received one comment so far. Click here to read it, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Rodney Jack with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: Rodney Jack Poem: Stonefruit Volume: Chelsea 68 Last read: Jul 25 2008, 8:57PM Poem of the Day: Jun 4 2006 Viewed 1100 times. Added on June 4th, 2006 at 6:40 PM.

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