Chocolate
Velvet fruit, exquisite square
I hold up to sniff
between finger and thumb---
how you numb me
with your rich attentions!
If I don't eat you quickly,
you'll melt in my palm.
Pleasure seeker, if I let you
you'd liquefy everywhere.
Knotted smoke, dark punch
of earth and night and leaf,
for a taste of you
any woman would gladly
crumble to ruin.
Enough chatter: I am ready
to fall in love!
From American Smooth by Rita Dove published by W. W. Norton & Company 2004
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