Raw

 

Raw

 

I remember the first time I had grapefruit without sugar

My mum never needed it

She was a black coffee girl

& it must have been 15 years 20 years later

& the bitterness was strangely refreshing

I learned to enjoy being naked with life

Regardless the flaws in my body

 

Intimacy with life yields pleasant company

Like today’s crimson rosella

Who’s eaten the last of the plums

After first the possums & then the cockatoos had their way.

 

 

Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2023.