Honeydew
read when you want something bad
Every day I wake up early
with the sun & remember
eating honeydew in bed:
your rind littered the sheets
*
after you loved me mean.
I held your dimpled skin between
my knees, said nothing, pushed
you beneath the silk duvet.
*
I did love, but does that matter?
Judgement is about forgiveness.
Once I said your poems
are good, but not so good
*
but I was lying. I worshipped them
like gods, small but powerful
and burning while I watched
them undress—Now imagine
*
when you scooped the fruit clean
with your teeth, marble skin
the shape of man: How could
we have betrayed the poems?
*
We hadn’t made them at all.
They used us, hunks of flesh. Now
I’m so disgusted with ourselves.
The work of the body body.
*
The work of the words. Don’t
you see we’re sickly sweet,
chilled, and wet? Let's
stop pretending and dig in.
*
Now, bury your face like a good
body. Open your mouth, good good
body body. Look up with strings
of melon in your grin.
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Comments (16)
Fabulous work! You really brought your subject to life! I love this! :)
Congratulations you should be very proud of this piece
Congratulations to your elegant and ravishing piece !
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Congratulations- Joe Nasta on 2nd place in the challenge.
Well done! This is a really interesting take on love and metaphor, ‘stream’ of consciousness , sweetness and the body. I don’t pretend to understand it but maybe that’s the point?
Congratulations on placing 2nd in the challenge. This piece is amazing.
Oh wow! Love how your metaphor slips in and out of itself to culminate in exquisite indulgent unashamed satisfaction. Beautifully done. Congratulations 🥳
Congrats, Joe.
Wooohooooo congratulations on your win! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Congratulations! Nice!
great play on words...congrats.
What a sublime stream of consciousness! Just fantastic. Congrats on being in the top 2! 🤗
Beautiful poem! Congrats on second place!!! 🥈
Fantastic stream of consciousness poem!❤️❤️💕
love it. i'm finding your work melodic and oh so juicy to read.