Ice Sculpture of a Fruit BasketA Poem by Onoma
you find a completely empty picnic area--
showing up dressed as a widow. black kerchief wrapped around your head-- tied at the chin, a predominance of cheeks with a buggy-bulge of purple horn rim glasses. barefoot with a black dress on, obscuring splatters of sweat: back/breasts/paunch. holding an ice sculpture of a fruit basket on a ninety degree day. you spread a white sheet & set it down, as large ants congregate on this succulently carved chunk of ice. you then get naked, save for the black kerchief-- as if undergoing a strip search in prison. sitting Indian style--chanting the sutras of an emotional cripple, while periodically licking the melting fruit basket to sate your thirst. until one of the large ants bites your tongue.
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