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Now More Than Ever:
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Poem by Lavina Blossom

7/22/2020

5 Comments

 
Obsession

​A morsel of sparrow darts


across the window.  And because

you cannot sleep for the rumbling
under your ribs, and because the lemon-drop
sun is seeping into the deep dark
of the kitchen where you sit with
a needle stitches together
the sides of your stomach--
you imagine taking the lettuce-
green shadows, balling them
together, throwing them
against the wall.


Night swims upstream, while
you suck the collar of your
shirt, taste fish.  An itch,
a pinch, a pang for that
butter knife that’s only
knife now, that fruit bowl that’s
only bowl.  You lick your
parched lips, take
your blood-orange
head in your hands.


It breaks
into sections.
Picture
Lavina Blossom is a painter and mixed media artist as well as a poet.  Her poems have appeared in various journals, including 3Elements Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Literary Review, The Paris Review, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Poemeleon, Common Ground Review, and Ekphrastic Review.  She is an Editor of Poetry for Inlandia:  a Literary Journey.

5 Comments
Durre
7/23/2020 04:16:24 pm

Love the imagery painted in this poem

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Judy Kronenfeld link
7/23/2020 06:03:56 pm

Great to see this, Lavina! Congratulations!

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Robbi Nester
7/23/2020 08:29:03 pm

Love the ending particularly.

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Barbara Wuest
7/24/2020 07:56:03 am

Love this poem, Lavina.

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Lenore JOHNSON
7/24/2020 08:40:53 pm

Great poem, Lavina! Big Congrats on all your success! Love Lenore

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