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Catherine Rockwood
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List Poem with Raspberries and Competent Sex
 
Because when summer comes I know it by raspberries
 
Because the season of raspberries spills and abounds
 
And its canes remember and will hurt you anywhere
 
For their fruit is plain but sweet like competent sex
 
While their seeds are tiny bitter quotidian quarrels
 
Because out of the lion the scent of sundried raspberries
 
Because of the flirted thorn that keeps them clustered
 
O my love is a broken thicket half-stripped of raspberries
 
But lo the insatiable cricket is fed by their juices
 
Their children spring up and exceed, they overrun!
 
O the heart is a stained fist that closes itself on raspberries. 




Catherine Rockwood lives in Massachusetts with her family.  You can find her poems in Contrary Magazine, Reckoning Magazine, SWWIM, and elsewhere. A chapbook, Endeavors to Obtain Perpetual Motion, is forthcoming from the Ethel Zine Press in 2022. 





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