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Coma

Jennifer Ilene Oliver

I gather words
like sunflowers, sweet
in my mouth--a
slack pocket that
once tumbled
together lemon
sours and
butterscotch.
Stuttering
neon in parched
dreams; words
pool while
morphine swells
my arteries. My
name is oven-
dried chicken
bones in my
throat.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGHIJAKLMFFMN
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 237
Words 41
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
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