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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.

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