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Claire Potter
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That she should have been eatingan apple underground
on the metro at 6am, was not
unusual
I have seen people before
eating on the metro: bread usually
torn from small
paper bags or
thin biscuits
picked from
plastic cylinders,
but this girl, and her reflection,
ate noisily
tearing at the lime skin & mulching
crisp pulp between
open teeth
Bright twigs of apple-
juice toppled from her palm
down her elbow &
into the tongue of a
silent shoe
& my curiosity became an apple
in the heart of a dwindling coal . . .
but then, there were also her nodding green-black
starfish eyes:
momentarily crossed on the apple, then peeled back from
forced awakedness
© 2006, Claire Potter
From: In front of a comma
Publisher: Poet\'s Union, Sydney
From: In front of a comma
Publisher: Poet\'s Union, Sydney
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That she should have been eatingan apple underground
on the metro at 6am, was not
unusual
I have seen people before
eating on the metro: bread usually
torn from small
paper bags or
thin biscuits
picked from
plastic cylinders,
but this girl, and her reflection,
ate noisily
tearing at the lime skin & mulching
crisp pulp between
open teeth
Bright twigs of apple-
juice toppled from her palm
down her elbow &
into the tongue of a
silent shoe
& my curiosity became an apple
in the heart of a dwindling coal . . .
but then, there were also her nodding green-black
starfish eyes:
momentarily crossed on the apple, then peeled back from
forced awakedness
From: In front of a comma
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