March 2022
John Dorroh
travelerjd59@gmail.com
travelerjd59@gmail.com
Bio Note: I am passionate about poetry and have so manys books --read and unread -- that I've run out of room. I think it's as important to read poetry (and support poets by buying their work) as it is to write it. It's also important to submit and share your work. Our poetry is doing no one any good by "living" in our computers. Saturate yourself!
Poem for Lemon
Oh, you luscious lemon, you sunny orb
of liquid life, the pucker-power engine
propelling me into another good day.
How you cleanse my palate, ridding
my liver of toxins. You deserve daily
transformations into sorbet and ice-
box pie, the delicate tinge of acid
in a poppy seed bread; oh, slip into
our baby-bird mouths, waiting for
that know-how, that inescapable
announcement that all is good with
the world. Your bright yellow coat,
your waxy robe of bumpy skin like
taste buds, like sour pockets of attention
and bliss. How I love you, lemon, how
you’ve never brought me anything
but sunshine even on dark gray days.
©2022 John Dorroh
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