House of Fruit Flies
for J.C.S.

eye search her when I see her
hungry for poems

like an insect eater, waiting for one to alight
to snatch at

poems hover about her like fruit flies
hover over pineapple
I’m cutting into pieces and eating

over orange I’m separating into plugs
to partake of

over cantaloupe, papaw, water melon
I shove my knife in
to slice a chunk off


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
2:31 p. m. 19/09/07