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Cat This Poem I love this poem and I want you to see why. Read it. Then read it again, slowly. Eat it like a peach'—taste it. soft bite by soft bite. Let the words and rhythms roll around on your tongue like peach flesh. You see? This poem is not crunchy like French fries. It's not hard and dry like a bone. It's sweet, luscious, and light—but very filling. Yum.

—Debbie Nevins

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From Blossoms By Li-Young Lee

ms comes

this brown paper bag of peaches

we bought ÍTom the boy at the bend in the road where we '

turned toward i

signs painted Peaches.

From laden boughs, from hands,

from sweet fellowship in the bins,

comes nectar at the roadside, succi

peaches we devour, dusty skin and

comes the familiar dust of summed dust we eat.

Lj-Young Lee, "From Blossoms" from Rose. Copyright © 1985 by LJ-Young Lee. Reprinted with permission of BOA Editions. Ltd. www.boaeditions.org.

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it

loave a so fer-Pect t h a t

wished you could hold

pry within us an orchard, to eat

bnly the skin, but the shade,

pnly the sugar, but the days, to hold

^ i t in our hands, adore it, en bite into

TOund jubilance of peach.

re are days we live

I death were nowhere

i background; from joy

r to joy, from wing to wing,

blossom to blossom to

ssible blossom, to sweet :

possible blossom.

The peach t a s t e s o-p Suga»'. (ui-Fe ar\d Uove) i t also t a s t e s o-F dust.

(peath?)

The poet waists to stop time av\d hold ol̂ to the joy t h a t is the "sweet impossible b

o-f couï'se, it's impossible.

Li-Young Lee is a Chinese American poet who came to the United States as a child. He has written several books of poetry as well as a memoir.

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