FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: BITTER SWEET Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words bitter and/or sweet, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on September 20th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Bitter Sweet will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, September 21st between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Jackie Chou

Bittersweet


I frequent fruit stands

for chopped mangoes

sprinkled with tajin powder


If they're crisp and sour

instead of soft and syrupy

I squint my eyes

wrinkle my nose

muttering "Bittersweet!"


The sandy wind

blows against my face

stings my eyes

blurs my view with tears

while ravens cry

"Bittersweet!"


The taste on my tongue

reminds me 

of adolescence 

my lips curled 

into a single word 

"Bittersweet"


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