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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.




Quotes of the Day

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
• Theodore Dreiser


Poems of the Day
  • Wallace Stevens
    To The One Of Fictive Music
    by Wallace Stevens
    Sister and mother and diviner love, And of the sisterhood of the living dead Most near, most clear, and of the clearest bloom, And of the fragrant mothers the most dear