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Benedict Fruit

Yonsiri Rojas

the goose hisses in its ivory crochet suit;

sauntering the stoned road, a flinch of light

bathing the pigeon’s pearls, the town’s brute

animal—its local needful, lazy pal might

have carved off some of its benedict fruit.

the goose grasps the pigeon’s wing

hums a ballad, makes a sorrowful scene

down the mountain, towards the spring

“cut him some slack!”, swallows him clean;

local conflict nicely solved, left neither a whing,

nor the clumsy thief seen.

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