Eclipse
Obscuring One's Light
She picked a peach for me
it was golden
ripe and ready
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I ate a plum
its dark, bloody juice
flowed down my throat
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I sucked greedily
a purple trickle running
from the corner of my mouth
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Her face fell
she threw the peach
into the kitchen sink
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It exploded
~~~~
Carefully I removed
the pit of my plum
placed it among
the bright ruins of her gift
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Like the moon upon the sun
it looked so dark
so wrong
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Like me
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Heather Hagy
Stephen King fan (but not like Annie "I'm your #1 fan" Wilkes cuz I'm sane and she's not)
Horror/supernatural are my favorite writing genres
Wife to 1 and mom to 4 humans, 4 dogs, 6 cats, and a dragon
"Jaws" is the greatest movie ever
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