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Poetry | March/April 2021

Sonnet: Ovum

By Julie Phillips Brown

                    poppy seed sweet pea lentil blueberry
         raspberry grape kumquat lime plum lemon
                          peach apple avocado turnip sweet
                         potato heirloom tomato banana
          carrot cucumber English cabbage corn
                     rutabaga grapefruit cauliflower
             pomegranate butternut squash acorn
                      squash coconut jicama pineapple
         cantaloupe honeydew romaine Swiss chard
               leek watermelon—o small, sweet pumpkin
                      settled in your hollow still, we could eat
           you right up, just scrape the seeds & roast them
     how now, sweetmeat, will you eat us too, aren’t you 
              tired yet—o, how we call you, keep you home?


1 reply on “Sonnet: Ovum”

Lindasays:
March 18, 2021 at 5:44 pm

Simply fabulous. Our next door neighbor’s seed sprouted 6 weeks early but is doing just fine.

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