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Alice Walker
9 February 1944 - / Eatonton Georgia
What It Feels Like
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As if I've swallowed
A watermelon
And
Sidestepping
My digestive tract
It has lodged
In my heart.
There it lies
Green
& whole
with a luscious
red
heart of its own
daring me
to cut.
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