"Pink Coconut" by M. Clara White

“Pink Coconut” by M. Clara White

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Two girls squat under a bridge,

Young pack-a-day girls

 

Unfiltered Camels, in a September snow

In the warm South girls

 

Warm with a bottle of SoCo.  Young girls:

Janice’s drink.

 

Changelings melting and freezing, young

Mouths

 

Water for sweets, hands that need each

Knuckle kissed, tucked

 

Each finger inside mittens by Mommas who

Check zippers and cover ears

 

Two girls in blood-surprised bodies, young men’s

Mouths

 

Water for a taste, a peek, a squeal, a smoke

A brutality

 

Toy girls, teeming girls, SoCo and tits, The Doors

Pussies and bassinettes

 

Their first trick under the bridge and the pink coconut

Cupcakes it buys them.

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M. Clara White is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Newfane, VT. Her work can be found in RHINO Poetry Magazine, ZOUCH Magazine and Miscellany, NAP 3.1, Eunoia Review (forthcoming), Petrichor Machine (forthcoming) and the Medulla Review (also forthcoming).