Brogue 2007 - Belhaven College
Brogue 2007 - Belhaven College
Brogue 2007 - Belhaven College
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t h e b r o g u e<br />
Concentric Homesickness<br />
A D I E S M I T H<br />
I am an onion, baking in the fluorescent sun.<br />
I peel off my layers. No, I crisp them off,<br />
lying in a pile of forgotten skin on the sidewalk.<br />
Crisp.<br />
Sores ooze under my fingernails.<br />
I long for my kitchen.<br />
She is silhouetted by the afternoon sun;<br />
the aloe plant basks in green.<br />
Her sharp edges repel me.<br />
Crisp.<br />
Cool scissors slice through her green shell.<br />
Her healing leaks out.<br />
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