文章基本信息

标题：Fresh Figs.
作者：Mele, Michael
期刊名称：The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
印刷版ISSN：1532-1118
出版年度：2003
期号：May
语种：English
出版社：Gay & Lesbian Review, Inc.

摘要：

 Fresh Figs   The trouble with figs is Not the sticky juice That flows down my cheek When I massage one in half With my lips, Or those rosy pink fibers That tickle my nose and my tongue As they slip toward my throat. Not how they bruise in my palm When my firm fingertips Close in too tight, Or their slow, greenish scent As they pose in a bowl Confident; no The trouble with figs is On that day, that minute, when they're rip on the tree -- Perfect, split, Moaning on the bowed limb, Supple skin Soft as a taut scrotum -- I cave in, Fraught with the thought that I ought to eat them All.

Fresh Figs.

Mele, Michael

Fresh Figs


The trouble with figs is
Not the sticky juice
That flows down my cheek
When I massage one in half
With my lips,
Or those rosy pink fibers
That tickle my nose and my tongue
As they slip toward my throat.
Not how they bruise in my palm
When my firm fingertips
Close in too tight,
Or their slow, greenish scent
As they pose in a bowl
Confident; no
The trouble with figs is
On that day,
that minute, when they're rip on the tree --
Perfect, split,
Moaning on the bowed limb,
Supple skin
Soft as a taut scrotum --
I cave in,
Fraught with the thought that I ought to eat them
All.