Johnson, Laura

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Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal Volume 7 Issue 1 Article 8 June 2007 Her Filthy Plums Laura Johnson Follow this and additional works at: https://orb.binghamton.edu/harpurpalate Recommended Citation Johnson, Laura (2007) "Her Filthy Plums," Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal: Vol. 7: Iss. 1, Article 8. Available at: https://orb.binghamton.edu/harpurpalate/vol7/iss1/8 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB). It has been accepted for inclusion in Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal by an authorized editor of The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB). For more information, please contact ORB@binghamton.edu. H ER FILTHY PLUMS Laura Johnson I am not ashamed of it despite the cold greenish gold color made natural by their habi tat in alcohol-the way I eat chem as the dregs of a communion with the goddess Ume and her sweet slit, drunk in the thicket of a boon companion's tender skin breaking under my teeth , split flesh mirrored by the curve of plums pouring forward from the jar, her breasts like a stunted fruit held away a hand's reach fo r the forward branch unpresent in a situation I suck pleasure from in reminiscence, the world and its encounters berefr of their vehemence in the unbreachable gap berween love and distance. 36 1Johnson: Her Filthy PlumsPublished by The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB), 2007

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