Peachy Eyes​

Issue 8

What swirls around this sink drain
            of you
            suds me
And yes we may sit on our nest today
            ​but then again
            maybe not
 
And oh my darling I don’t recall if you are
            important
But yes I do take your bull
            by its horns
            in gladness
And I so worship this confusion
            of us
 
Yes what you say is also true --
            I don’t vote or slurp like
            anyone else alive
Nor do I count the clicks till you come home
            at all
 
But please do keep in mind dear
            that I’m truly as puffed up as any goose is
            about you
            and I’m also as common as scratch
 
And even more
Please know that
We’re so wonderfully tangled up
            and dissolved
Such that surely you and your peachy eyes
            will one day I believe
            start to sing aloud about us
            ​like every cake

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Hiram Larew is the founder of Poetry X Hunger: Bringing a World of Poets to the Anti-Hunger Cause. He has had poems appear in recent issues of Ghudsavar, Contemporary American Voices, Poetry Scotland’s Gallus, ZiN Daily, The Iowa Review and West Trade Review.

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