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Uterus Fruits

             First picked Summertime cherry 
             Dew glimmer marble blood clot
    Taut fruit platter embitters sweating cheese
              Liver pate shivers jiggle jelly
       Nepenthe Mountbatten hidden chicken 

    
                 Lays a tablecloth festive
            Red checkered rewashed faded
        Season with sea swell returns faithfully  
       Sickle slender silver moon smile harvests 
            Follicle forests expanding to full


            Bright verve verdancy bursting 
                  Peril of temporal balls
      Metered to melt before resuming build
Knife blade moonbeam ripens the coming crop
     Basket bulge fibrous beckon buyers’ bids


                 When the ceremony’s over
              Feasting has ceased, linen’s off
Pink penned love letters are scrunched up thrown out
  Reform engorged nightcap warmed moon omen
  Sun demurred eclipse naps, menopause opaque 


          Unborn bends branches for Mary
               Dulia in bloom banquets 





                   
        Written for Contest: Seven Ten 
               Sponsor: Emile Pinet

Copyright © Sigrid Ermine

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