November Recap

In honor of December beginning (how we are in December now, I have no idea), I wanted to bid November an official farewell by reflecting on my favorite pieces, while watching the 25 Days of Christmas on Freeform, while I hang up dried orange garlands and make cookies.

Below are five poems that I wrote during this past month starting with …

Stone Fruit

Do I dare to eat a peach?

Break my fast on fragility,

let the sweet seep, sweep, seethe in cells that purged weakness?

Do I dare eat a peach,

celebrate a body that was allowed to bloom from blossom

while mine fermented into stone?

Do I dare to eat a peach,

and sit with myself under this tree,

listen to my past, finally?

*

Silly echo,

conversation is for men,

you mirror my pain,

the only flaw is that you have never lived it.

*

November burns

magenta ember of roses who bloom

even as the Sun moves farther away,

like women reaching out to be held by distant men after sampling their love.

*

Woodlands

She had acre-deep eyes the color of leaf litter from autumn

with the seriousness of winter,

and the wisdom of wood-rings, as constant as pine trees,

they enveloped me with the same overwhelming feeling

you encounter when you wander the woods,

humbled by the gravity of giants.

*

Take care of me

Take care of me as if you’ll never see me again,

or even better, take care of me forever.

This is my first time existing,

take care of me.

*

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