NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 6



Untitled Draft

we mangle our men to mold us,
ripe peaches plucked by
monstrous hands & we
love them, fuzzed fingers
filling us, pleading our
souls out of us, promising
warmth after our winter freeze

we sparkle them with kisses,
breathe their names, conscious
of our springtime scent on
the breeze of our passing
them by, eyes downward,
sacrificial lambs who’ve
signed on willingly
for this secret slaughter

Image by Teresa from Pixabay


Published by Jennifer Patino

Poet in Michigan.

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