Notes
Reprinted by permission from Tyler Chadwick, ed., Fire in the Pasture: Twenty-First Century Mormon Poets (El Cerrito, Calif.: Peculiar Pages, 2011), 230.
Eve, the apple was a pomegranate—
Poem
Exhausting, the tear and pull of scabrous flesh, exposing pale pulp, the seeds sleek pulse.
Her fingers bleed red and
Adam takes the peel, pulls away
the arils. Two in his hand, two on her tongue.
You want them to see you, to offer you your share. You expect Eve to thank you, Adam to take your hand, take away the pen, write the last words:
How many times will you write
redemption without being
redeemed?