painting by b. macallister : photo by steven holland

c h r i s t i n a

:  b o n n i e   m a c a l l i s t e r

She shacked up on the river
Invited us to pop a ring
Of watermelon, cherry, apple, grape
Spacing out spinning
Lemonade conjoined
In five minute intervals,
Benches reside behind fences
Hopped, stopped in five a.m. caterwall,
Walled walks on the canal
Apples carved out, cyphering saliva
And syllabic sentences,
voids and viragos,
Synchronicity of false teeth
and inappropriate meanderings.

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