Stanard, Bonnie

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Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal Volume 9 Issue 2 Article 48 January 2010 The Wasp & the Fig Bonnie Stanard Follow this and additional works at: https://orb.binghamton.edu/harpurpalate Recommended Citation Stanard, Bonnie (2010) "The Wasp & the Fig," Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal: Vol. 9: Iss. 2, Article 48. Available at: https://orb.binghamton.edu/harpurpalate/vol9/iss2/48 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. THE WASP AND THE FIG Bonnie Stanard Forbidden fru it from the Garden of Eden expelled Adam, a mere man cursed by ardor to become perishable. The allure of death by divinity deposits veins into the lobed leaves of history, blessed and cursed by prophets. In the transient and early spring a garden of blooms pummels the insides of every green belly to begin the arr of procreation . Inside the dark cavity looms a paradise of gloom, little lobes of fruit ripen ing into juicy stumps of pulp. When the sun drips on a private part it arouses a scent so figgy a tiny pregnant wasp nuzzles into the fig's skin and scrapes off her wings getting inside her desire. Succor for the future figs hatches and flies away on nascent wi ngs. No taste is so fragile as the wasted wasp among female flowers. So strong is the desire for lust and the taste of the fig that Adam forsakes nothing, not the wasp in his heart nor death in his veins. 166 1Stanard: The Wasp & the FigPublished by The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB), 2010

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