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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.




Last updated July 15, 2015

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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

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