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What It Feels Like

Alice Walker

As if I've swallowed
A watermelon
And
Sidestepping
My digestive tract
It has lodged
In my heart.
There it lies
Green
& whole
with a luscious
red
heart of its own
daring me
to cut.




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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet,
though he has never written a line in all his life.

• George Sand



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