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Janann Dawkins
Organic Memories
Blackberries hide in my mouth.
Opened wide, nine syrupy stitches
slide across my taste buds
like sleds on a cliff. My tongue
is slick with undulate flavor. I lick
the roof and embedded there
little clicks of seeds meet
my muscular touch. I moan and whir
and spin like a girl in a blackberry field,
my mother four rows back, forgotten.
Grown Man Throws a Tantrum
The sight sucks your breath: arms
buck against gravity; fists
fall like flails; knees bent
like pins; skin pink with blood.
His efforts shake foundations.
The baseboard buckles beneath him,
this earthquake of a man.
Arms flex, full of demons.
On the mantle, curios tremble.
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