A childhood palette
fizzing fanta soda - backyard BBQs and laundromat in the square
fingers and lips sticky
with pink cotton candy
from Whalom park
a copper penny
popped in quick
like a bleeding finger
chaulky chocolate
squares swallowed
to follow it through
blue otter pops
sucked out plastic tubes
thick whole milk
sucked through a straw
each
cloying
coating
my throat
sour rubarb stalks gorged
one summer afternoon
heaving burning bile
one summer midnight
tiny teaberries picked from the woods
sweet lilac blossoms picked from the shrubs
warm blackberries picked from the bushes
all dreamy and luscious
an explosion of ink from a bic
the explosion of laughter that followed me out of the classroom
an iris leaf - a fresh savory bite with a toxic twist
I never listened
the hunger
the urge
the curiousity
too compelling
to resist
fizzing fanta soda - backyard BBQs and laundromat in the square
fingers and lips sticky
with pink cotton candy
from Whalom park
a copper penny
popped in quick
like a bleeding finger
chaulky chocolate
squares swallowed
to follow it through
blue otter pops
sucked out plastic tubes
thick whole milk
sucked through a straw
each
cloying
coating
my throat
sour rubarb stalks gorged
one summer afternoon
heaving burning bile
one summer midnight
tiny teaberries picked from the woods
sweet lilac blossoms picked from the shrubs
warm blackberries picked from the bushes
all dreamy and luscious
an explosion of ink from a bic
the explosion of laughter that followed me out of the classroom
an iris leaf - a fresh savory bite with a toxic twist
I never listened
the hunger
the urge
the curiousity
too compelling
to resist
Based on the prompt to write a poem that uses the form of a list to defamiliarize the mundane
That brings back memories.
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