
Mulberries
T. A. Lovett
her feet stamped down
like nervous deer
doe-eyes too cloudy to sheer
through compound images reflected
from each bulb of red-purple pulp
chewed by her soles
seed and flesh straining what’s beneath
wet eyes upward and down spinning
underfeet and above in dizzy arms
frenzied birds leaping from bowing branches
springing upward on tiptoes reaching higher
for each morsel wanting to drop
just late enough like figs overripe
grabbing for every single one.
About the Author
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T.A. Lovett is a Colorado School of Mines transfer Engineering Student attending Red Rocks Community College. She has written poetry for campus literary magazines including “The Minds Eye” at Johnson County Community College. Her work takes the reader through metaphoric conceits that describe natural beauty using multiple interlocking constructs and imagery. Mulberries is a referential from Sylvia Plath’s “Fig Tree” that combines nostalgic personal memory with a sense of the confusion of entering new phases of women’s living and the complex choices of deciding how to carry out one’s future.