Like Pitted Nectarines (poem #277)

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Blossoming eyes losing

focus on the edges of photographs,

blur me out, hollow and sweet

like pitted nectarines.


 

A Note About this Poem: I imagined an old photograph with girls smiling, happy, and joyful but the knowledge that they all must be dead or alive somewhere very very old weighs the photograph down.

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-Alina