February 2013
Poetry
Plums
after WCW
by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
I did not eat the plum
in the icebox
a glimmer of sweat
dots her purple dress
her scooped neckline
a knotted stem brown and curled
as the arm you throw carelessly
over me in sleep
I did not eat the plum
in the silver icebox darling
I saved it for you
About Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
Born in Trinidad and raised in New York City, Cheryl is the author of three collections of poetry,Raw Air, Night When Moon Follows, and Convincing the Body. Her poetry can be seen in Diane Samuel’s Lines of Sight, a permanent exhibit at Brown University. A graduate of Stonecoast MFA program,Cheryl is working on a memoir and a new collection of poetry.
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