red booth
review
issue s16een
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Too Much Like Birds
Birdlike, the three blond haired, blue-eyed children
Cast sharp glances at the tomato plants
Looking for the green and white-striped hornworms.
They pry the fat treasures from the leaves
And squish their tomato-green guts into the dark
soil
With bare brown feet.
Their reward for finding a hornworm is
One fat red tomato straight from
The refrigerator. They bite into the fruit
And tomato guts dribble
From their chins like blood.
- Jude Roy
| Jude's work has appeared in The
Southern Review, Prism International, Southern Indiana Review, Niedermgasse,
and The Dead Mule. He teaches in Madisonville, Kentucky but
hails from Louisiana. |
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