Poetry

A Single Rotting Pear

Zakari Kaletka

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A sickly sweet scent Dreams of carving to your core A sticky, sweaty, sustenance Seeps into shallow cravasses On the vine A caterpillar caressed inside Instead it is consumed It’s eternal chrysalis Entombed in spotted leather Cycling spoiled juice Nestled further than squalid flesh Relentless to spread its rot

Published in Tahoma West, 2015. Reproduced here from the author’s archived manuscript.

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