Sliced


By Pavel Chichikov

White-throated sparrows

Sound like apples

A young child eats

Sour-sweet

Four eyes cross

Inside a brain

Two universes

Sing the same

As when two apples

Picked from a tree

Goggle with eyes

As brown as seeds


(Click here to follow Pavel's ongoing epic poem “The Shoulder of the Sun.” You may visit Pavel's website at http://www.greyowlpress.com.)

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