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Melissa Dickson

Ode to the Avocado

Oh-alligator
pod, toad-fist nugget, you
of the green-mealed heart, pimpled, pitted,
glazed organ of densest fuel, husk of lunch
- let me love my fickle self as I love you-
cursed though we are by these imperfect
margins, this spin of skin around a
seeded core, this changeable
flesh, this too brief, this
faultless peak.

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