Edible Stone
by Erin McGrane
Three tomatoes will never be enough.
One mango could never suffice.
Your toothpaste heart can’t brush away
the sweater you left last season,
the seasoning of you still the recipe for my disaster
and still my favorite dish.
You, little tomato fruit, pretending to be a vegetable
more at home in the savory, salty pot
but still a fruit, a seed, a fleshy heart.
I bite your surprisingly protective skin
not nearly as thin as it looks
thinking of juice ripe as blood.
You, sweet, simple mango, edible s
Edible Stone
by Erin McGrane
Three tomatoes will never be enough.
One mango could never suffice.
Your toothpaste heart can’t brush away
the sweater you left last season,
the seasoning of you still the recipe for my disaster
and still my favorite dish.
You, little tomato fruit, pretending to be a vegetable
more at home in the savory, salty pot
but still a fruit, a seed, a fleshy heart.
I bite your surprisingly protective skin
not nearly as thin as it looks
thinking of juice ripe as blood.
You, sweet, simple mango, edible sEdible Stone
by Erin McGrane
Three tomatoes will never be enough.
One mango could never suffice.
Your toothpaste heart can’t brush away
the sweater you left last season,
the seasoning of you still the recipe for my disaster
and still my favorite dish.
You, little tomato fruit, pretending to be a vegetable
more at home in the savory, salty pot
but still a fruit, a seed, a fleshy heart.
I bite your surprisingly protective skin
not nearly as thin as it looks
thinking of juice ripe as blood.
You, sweet, simple mango, edible sAbout Us
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