"The Reluctant Vegetarian"
raspberry n
(1) horse strawberry
cinched with
goat sweat; (2) pulp
crumbs drenched
in intimate
blood; adv (3) the way
children teach
adults how to
eat again; n (4) jelly
polyps spiked
with hawthorn; (5)
cat-gut pastilles
tapestried on stab
wounds; (6) the puckered
lips of car-crash
victims; adj
(7) the wretchedness
of the past tense;
n (8) an embolism
and its silent
drift in my
slipstream.
Aubergine n (1)
a well fed
queen, impossibly
indulged; adj (2) funereal
black crepe; n
(3) shiney dominatrix,
scented with
the aluminium
violets of furniture
polish; (4) a baby
whale warming in a
calloused palm; adj (5)
luxurious as an
oyster’s salty
innards; (6) the yellow
jaw of pig fat in
a surgeoned stomach
fold; (8) to dissipate
by sweating drops
of vinegar rust.
© 2009 Richard M
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