Dorothy Pugin - Bruises

You talk
as we pick
rambling blackberries

and the words
that you put out
between us
are a crowd,
a noisy boisterous mob

Dropping below the level of words
I find the quiet below the crowd

and squeeze the black of a berry
finger roll it, and press
the colour of a bruise
against my white skin.

Dorothy Pugin

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