{"id":2104,"date":"2021-11-30T21:53:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T01:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=2104"},"modified":"2021-12-02T14:13:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T18:13:24","slug":"eating-a-blackberry-in-noon-sunlight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/eating-a-blackberry-in-noon-sunlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating a Blackberry in Noon Sunlight…"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Eating a Blackberry in Noon Sunlight on a Wednesday in December
<\/strong>Larissa Larson<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Inspired by \u201cI Watch Her Eat the Apple\u201d by Natalie Diaz<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I rotate you in my left fingertips, a tiny bushel of balloons. I think of the Goo Goo Dolls and how baby\u2019s black balloon makes me cry. Any second you could pop, spill your neon pink insides, and go. A bottle of seeded wine I\u2019ve become addicted to.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Drunk on your fragrant skin my right finger stumbles on body like braille, a foreign language
I yearn to learn by tongue. Hot breath I exhale to make the tiny brown hairs on your silky skin stand on end. Both knowing what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I hold you up to the windowpane, your body a stained-glass cathedral. Royal blood bound in velvet crush praying to be dethroned. Sheer eminence shattered with just one bite. Starving for
a Byzantine feast, I split you in half like breaking an ancient empire.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I twist your bruised body, the color of a needed mistake, where the deep tissue shimmers silver with my salvia. Violet transforms into violence, and I beg your bleeding body to stain my lips. Red, the color of the dying sun.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Winter hungry sky,
gleaming with bodies of light,
prepares to perish. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Larissa Larson<\/strong> attends Hamline University\u2019s MFA Creative Writing program in St. Paul, MN, and assists with\u00a0Water~Stone Review<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Runestone<\/em>\u00a0Literary Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Twitter: @larissathepoet
Instagram: larissathepoet
Facebook: Larissa Larson<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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