- BOUNTY TANKA, REDUX -
Hunger for reading
dissimilar of homework
novitiate and
to his, “I’m thirsty” midnight;
reading, here begets hunger
Prompts… and what to the
wonderous gastrome should appear
(and does!) but the seg-
fermented platter “obscene”
delight - mango, persimmon
plantain-like-bmanna
star fruit (doin’ carambola)
papaya, quince, hints
of apple in sinopome
kiwi to all ripe
read-y, this heady
bouquet… uncommon lunch, brunch
munched like a picnic
sliced away, from vinegar
Drosophila Melanogaster
Like bounty, breadfruits
abundant to an ample
sea, fruits who labor
sweet and acrid repartee
dissuaded not for love’s glee
Reading for hunger
this thirst enquenched by Poets
knowits; and like the
apricot grain salves, eager
eye to life’s light, T’berius.
Drawing by Terrianne U. Swift