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.
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.