Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?
written by: Carrie Magness Radna
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Do I dare to eat a peach? *
Oh yes!
If you are a slob like me,
if it’s summertime, outside,
wearing an old T-shirt,
its juice running down
my chin & clavicle,
so sweet & fresh!
Just cut it up, Man,
slurp up the peachy clings
in syrup,
over cottage cheese
or yogurt,
dice it in chunks
& decorate
your vanilla ice cream,
a heavenly dream
for a tightly-lipped man
wearing a perfect suit,
petting his kitty cat.
I’m a pretty kitty,
sunlit & sweaty
in my summer dress,
bored & hot;
I need a juicy golden peach
to cool myself down.
* a famous line from ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ by T.S. Elliot
Carrie Magness Radna is an audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a choral singer and a poet who loves to travel. Her poems have previously appeared in The Oracular Tree, Mediterranean Poetry, Muddy River Poetry Review, Spillwords.com, Poetry Super Highway, Shot Glass Journal (Muse-Pie Press), Vita Brevis, Home Planet News, Cajun Mutt Press, Walt’s Corner, Polarity eMagazine, The Poetic Bond (VIII-X), Alien Buddha Press, Jerry Jazz Musician, Rye Whiskey Review, Litterateur RW and First Literary Review-East. Her first poetry collection, Hurricanes never apologize (Luchador Press) was published in December 2019. Her new poetry collection In the blue hour (Nirala Publications), was published in February 2021. She won Honorable Mention Award twice, for “all trains are haunted” (Non-rhyming poetry: 2019) and “May (a Pantoum)” (Rhyming poetry: 2021) in Writer’s Digest Writer’s Competition. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, she now lives with her husband in Manhattan, New York.
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