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PERSIMMON

By Abigail Goldman
Wednesday December 30, 2009 - 09:35:00 AM

What strange Elysium! 

A wintry months’ alluring pageantry. 

A fullest fruit round with obscenity, 

Low-hanging, branch bending, 

Rotten-ripe and dripping. 

Mmmm. 

How does Death? 

Time out of mind and pacing. 

Living in California under another name.