splashes of green red and mango yellow

like inconvenient stop and yield signs

pluck that large, round fruit

so big and thick and ripe

sink your teeth into that jam

rip away the skin, you wild beast, you wild thing

music lilting the corners of her mouths up high

she’s high high high up

breath pours out of her like water through a sieve, 

no, it’s not breath— 

something unearthly— something empties out of her, 

bubbling out of her lips, seeping down her jaw, and dribbling 

to her pants and flicking into the dirt past her shoes, trailing 

behind her— thick, goopy robin eggs 

so big and thick and ripe— take another bite

her eyes are big and fat, Alice-in-Wonderland-grand pearls

unearthly, inhuman, way past terrestrial

Jenn Uche ‘22, Creative Writing Editor

22juche@montroseschool.org