A list of things that have been said about dehydrated fruit
Man, sun-dried tomatoes
kind of look like pickled organs
and
this is only the second date
I’ve ever eaten in my life
and
is it nice?
and
the flesh of this apricot
is as sweet as a headache
and
were I to encrust my body in natron salt,
it would take a full 40 days before
the plasma evaporated from my veins
and the softness in my thighs was sucked
away and my skin toughened and puckered
like leather till it would take an obsidian knife
to hack your way to my heart
and
you really shouldn’t have dropped biology
because that’s not how it works
and
would you like another?
Sasha Carney is an aspiring poet from Ottawa, Ontario and a student at Yale University studying English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. They are a twice-winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, the creative director of Voke, an LGBTQ-centred soken word group, and a social media intern for Marías at Sampaguitas. Their work has been published by The Poetry Society, The Yale Herald, and Nightingale and Sparrow, and is forthcoming in Kissing Dynamite and Broad Recognition. In their spare time, they enjoy embroidery and overanalysing sitcoms.
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