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The Peach


  The peach is in its form flawless, skin downed and dewed, flushed with red flame. But picked green and shipped, so also scentless and stiff as its own stone. What the child stole—sun-warmed & bee-swarmed, cistern-sweet sluicing my mouth—was nothing like this: Hollywood décolleté in place of the heavy ripe sway of real breasts, […]

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