Issue 11.2 Spring 2016

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Discovering Sex

 

Sandy Coomer

 

 

In the garden between rows

of newly green lettuces

curled leaves overlapping

one another closely

so tight at the center unloosing

the frilled fragrance of soil

as the green deepens ripens opens readies

 

we are both unsure if we can breathe

 

the sweet peas climbing the shaky trellis

the tendrils slipping between the slats

to latch a breath, a gasp

 

the whole earth shudders beneath us

 

the red blood tomatoes fruit heavy and full

the flowering summer squash yellow sweet

cones of nectar cords of vine

radishes carrots peppers corn

moan under the moonlight

dancing crimson gold the molten deep

the hidden seed the melon in the dirt

the coarse weight and mounded flesh

 

and ours

 

we rise

 

the earth knows our secrets

the silent depths that gather us

back again and back again.

 

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