Claudia F. Savage Archives - The Poetry Box https://thepoetrybox.com/tag/claudia-f-savage Sat, 23 Dec 2017 23:15:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://thepoetrybox.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/cropped-GoldNibOnlyBrownCircle-32x32.png Claudia F. Savage Archives - The Poetry Box https://thepoetrybox.com/tag/claudia-f-savage 32 32 136205081 Learning Abandon by Claudia F. Savage https://thepoetrybox.com/learning-abandon-by-claudia-f-savage https://thepoetrybox.com/learning-abandon-by-claudia-f-savage#respond Tue, 01 Dec 2015 23:12:46 +0000 http://wpnew.thepoetrybox.com/?p=778 “Learning Abandon” by Claudia F. Savage, published in The Poeming Pigeon: Poems about Food, released November, 2015 by The Poetry Box. Learning Abandon Once, orchards smelled like love ought to — cinnamon and rot and leaves set to flame. Sweet smoke. A day’s obsession. More blatant green. More red blush across the cheeks. Perfect skin […]

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Learning Abandon

Once, orchards smelled like love ought to —
cinnamon and rot and leaves set to flame.
Sweet smoke. A day’s obsession.
More blatant green. More red blush
across the cheeks. Perfect skin break
for our impossible teeth.
Tangy honey to coat the tongue,
to urge us on. To more.
Twelve a piece. More.
Ladder here. Higher.

And when the gold flush of an early sun
fell, I called to you.

No waste or excess.

You and me, reaching.

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