Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Adam’s Appel” by Sabrina Spenser Smith.

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Adam’s Apple

By Sabrina Spenser Smith

The smoking gun, the surefire clue, the dead

giveaway to the sweetness we carry. Blooming

bodies blooming fruit for all to see. How I overlook

the sugary miracles of flesh. Nicked my cheek shaving,

hot blood pooling in the sink, and the next day the wound

erased into memory. There are parts I want to hide and others

I want to nourish like a gardener who understands love and water

can grow most things. If you don’t want that which juts gracefully

from your neck, know I am always hungry for the tenderness of human

pulp. Feed me and take a bite from wherever your bruised mouth desires.

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Copyright © Sabrina Spenser Smith

Sabrina Spenser Smith is a Winnipeg-based poet. Her debut book, A Brief Relief from Hunger, was published by Gordon Hill Press in 2023.

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