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Again, Again

Not like a tap turned on and not like a match struck
and certainly not like flicking on a light, it is not sudden. 


It is barely sweet.  Ripe?  Hard to tell.  Fingers
pressed carefully into the skin, imagine say, a pear, 


green, faintly so and tenuous, as though the green
were a blush, as though the pear at the prospect


of being plucked from its tree so many weeks ago
flushed a shade that recalls grass dying in the fall


or the barest beginnings of scallion stems. 
Sometimes you tell the story in fits, sometimes


one line at a time.


Jennifer Funk is native Californian currently proving her mettle in New England. A graduate of Warren Wilson's MFA Program for Writers, she has been a scholarship recipient of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and The Frost Place. Her work can be found or is forthcoming at The Cimarron ReviewFour Way ReviewThe BoilerSWWIM, and elsewhere.  

if the poem is a mouth

Now I live in the sea