- Non-Erotic Poetry
- The Truth Inside
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In your lap there's a hand-
Ful of walnuts –
Seven or eight or
Nine maybe and
A nutcracker – vice to
Break through the smooth
Shell to the crinkly
Parts inside, halves
At first sight identical
And yet subtly
Different, a taste to
Remember – but it's sad
To find the inside has
Gone hard and acrid and
After five or six or
Seven maybe you
Give up in disgust and
With on your tongue
The sweetly bitter
Taste of last year's
Sun, now old and dry,
You can only restore
The ones that are left to
The bowl on the shelf.
- COMMENTS
greenmountaineerabout 12 years agoI liked this very much. While I usually don't care for unusual line breaks via prepositions, conjunctions, etc., yours worked for me because the lines were abbreviated to begin with and a momentary pause before the next line begins did not sound forced or arbitrary like they do so often with longer lines, and I was also able to play with the image of the walnut throughout the length of poem without further distractions. Nicely crafted IMO.
