“Cherries” by Erin Ryan Meyer

Musical laughs
In a sunlight bath
Juice staining lips
Wrapping cherry pits
Tiny footsteps
On needles of grass
Knotted up stems
And violent gasps
Saliva drips
From rotten fruit
And bloodied bits
Soak into roots
Convulsing skin
Silence within

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Erin Ryan Meyer is finishing up her junior year as a European history major and art history minor. She grew up in Middletown, New Jersey and was influenced by the blending of the beach town lifestyle and the metropolitan environment, being across the water from New York City. She enjoys painting and thinks of poetry as a way to paint with words.