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Vegetable Love: In response to Carol Ann Duffy

by Ally Temple

Not an onion.

But a mushroom.

Your love springs up from the forest floor overnight

Velvet underneath.

Comically robust,

Yet your flesh so easily violated.

And if incorrectly chosen,

Intoxicating.

Ally Temple is a student.

http://www.thepygmygiant.blogspot.com

Bigger on the inside.

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