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Worldliness

by Nathan Parker

this is one of those marble sills
on which slumps
a wasp-plundered orange
some tattered fruit flies
passing peel skives
like volunteers at a fire
a queen logged with pulp
whose zeal has left her
to choke on a seed

I begin compressions
with the safe side of a pin
harder sir she gasps
faster sir she gasps
where am I again
and by the way that's not a problem
let me fetch something smaller
I'll crumb the way with wings and seeds

like that the orange is deserted
I think I hear a weed eater
she easily distracts me
grinning arching her stinger in the air

 


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