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Efrat Mishori

PELLETS OF GLASS

Pellets of glass worked with heat
Sunk deep at the base of a bowl.
Beaten in on themselves, poised and moist,
Shining at me, forbidden, aglow.

    Won’t   touch   m.
    Won’t   touch   m.
    Won’t   m           ove    my     hand.

   I’ll cherish the ban,
   I’ll raise it between my lips,
   I’ll slake it with what words
   Cannot secrete.

PELLETS OF GLASS

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PELLETS OF GLASS

Pellets of glass worked with heat
Sunk deep at the base of a bowl.
Beaten in on themselves, poised and moist,
Shining at me, forbidden, aglow.

    Won’t   touch   m.
    Won’t   touch   m.
    Won’t   m           ove    my     hand.

   I’ll cherish the ban,
   I’ll raise it between my lips,
   I’ll slake it with what words
   Cannot secrete.

PELLETS OF GLASS

Pellets of glass worked with heat
Sunk deep at the base of a bowl.
Beaten in on themselves, poised and moist,
Shining at me, forbidden, aglow.

    Won’t   touch   m.
    Won’t   touch   m.
    Won’t   m           ove    my     hand.

   I’ll cherish the ban,
   I’ll raise it between my lips,
   I’ll slake it with what words
   Cannot secrete.
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