Love Poem with Pomegranate,
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Its tilted presence suggests time's wilting, the way it sits defiantly on a plate, dares you to sink your knife into its hide, pick it to pieces. Love is like this: an armored, fragile thing with red-hot core, exacting patience. Our hands are bloody with it. |
Marc Alan Di Martino is a Pushcart-nominated poet, translator, and author of the collections Still Life with City (Pski's Porch, 2022) and Unburial (Kelsay, 2019). His work appears in Ligeia, Palette Poetry, Rattle, Rust + Moth, Tinderbox, and many other journals and anthologies. Currently a poetry editor for the Baltimore Review, he lives in Italy.