[lit-ideas] LPP. Love Poem # 17

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:04:58 -0500

SOUTHERN FARE

Stewed okra is slimy and sticky and delicious.
Just like you.
I wish you grew in these Tennessee fields.
Under unrelenting sun.
So God-awful hot.
God, it's so awful.
So hot.
But okra reminds me
of my tongue in you.
and you ablaze
like sun.


Mike Geary
Memphis

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