Kim Suttell

K i m  

S u t t e l l

Liliaceous

In a world with baskets lined in gingham

and bowls of sherbet balls in ginger ale

and pinking shears,

I try not to be cotton, not

liliaceous,

not a pie with crimped edges.

I want to be the hot oven,

and jagged ends,

a rough plank and splinters

and the spider's trap.

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