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Cultivating Goosebumps

June 17, 2015
By KarmaBites GOLD, Columbia Heights, Minnesota
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Yielding to the foreign

fondling of a

farmer’s fingers,
innumerable, infinitesimal breasts
bud on virgin flesh,
bursting forth (sans consent)
like curious cicadas
from the untouched topsoil
in which they incubated for 17 millicenturies
and derived existential sustenance from
innate complacency

© Christine S., Arlington, VA

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