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This poem from Isabelle Kenyon was published in the Somerville-based literary magazine Ibbetson Street (46).

BREAKFAST IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE AFTERNOON

Wilting in the shimmer-sheen of a small Italian town hot tongues in hot milk we sip

the morning down; the sky toasts.

Almost hidden – half-moon bites

ladder my legs, thirsty creature punctures rude polka dots.

Mark my skin foreign

you lay a soothing hand on the ripening sores.

— Isabelle Kenyon

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