In the Church Office After the Sermon - Nichole Brazelton

A bowl of cherries

on the window sill

looks like summer.

Your hand

on the table

looks like craving.

Hard edge

soft red

something sweet

and seeded.

How does it feel

against your tongue?

This is the kind of forbidden

we never mention.

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Nichole Brazelton lives in Pennsylvania where she is an adjunct professor of composition and communication. Nichole holds her MA in rhetoric from Duquesne University and her MFA in poetry from New England College. Her most recent poetry can be read in Canary, Sand Hills Literary Magazine, and Marathon Literary Review.