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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


Submitted by Southerndeb

Added: 1 Apr 2002 | Last Read: 21 Nov 2008 10:11 AM | Viewed: 2676 times

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