Sweet Deception

A short poem I wrote in 2021.

My daughter at Dunkin’ in January 2024.

I’m doing some reorganizing of this Substack as I plan out what my writing life may look like for the rest of 2024. Going through my Google Drive, I found several micro poems I had originally written for Instagram in 2021.

I break the skin
of the dimply clementine.

It spits citrus,
revealing with each tear 
more of its veiny flesh.

In mere seconds,
it is gone–
and I am left 
wishing 
this fruit had been 
a donut.

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