Write about a particular fruit describing this fruit as closely as possible.
Melancholic mouths
and strawberries that
smell like 5 AM on April 24th
only a couple will shrivel
like grandmothers in their 90’s
this one doesn’t look senile
it’s dimpled
spotted with seeds
that plunge into its core.
this strawberry is heartless
and I’m told
that’s a flaw.
I’ve been told I’m heartless
but there are those
who’d never deny
a piece of me
however they could get it.
I held one in my mouth to see how
it felt against my tongue,
brushing alongside its flesh,
gliding it back and forth along the top,
into the sides of my cheeks
and I wondered if it could feel this too.
It tastes like nothing on the outside
like most people,
earthy until I bite down
it’s raw like midnight thoughts,
a flood of flavor
releases
crunchy, tiny seeds finding their ways
into my gums,
filling holes nothing else can.
