a sunrise as in waking up/as in a half peeled orange/as in a candle through rose spectacles/as in an unrehearsed smile/as in occupied lips behind drawn curtains/as in OXO pier/as in a new day or another day or just day/as in the first offering of day/as in the leftover beauty from night/as in a rising sun/as in holy/as in salvation
forbidden as in fruit/as in probably wasn’t an apple/as in a grapefruit/as in Born Sinner/as in a Tyndale bible/as in an unwanted truth/as in a tongue too anxious to uncurl/as in an incognito browser/as in a love/as in many types of love/as in what is love?/as in them just not you/ as in a mother’s look/as in THE look/as in a dam in the heart/as in not allowed
from as in distance/as in a home left/as in somewhere to go back to/as in a shed skin/as in ackee taste heavenly fresh/as in canned ackee is dead/as in red dirt/as in a postcode/as in what your eyes know/as in what an eye remembers/as in the end of a love note/as in xoxo/as in a line started in the sky
breaking as in heart/as in the sharpness of bone/as in bread/as in a blink when clouds passover/as in a misplaced word/as in worn nail polish/as in fraying rope/as in a tub of ice cream/as in no “have you eaten today?”/as in dying elephants/as in a stomach at war with food/as in potential/as in the hope for stronger/as in a fully peeled orange/as in opening curtains/as in night must bleed out before day begins/as in a body rejecting weight/as in the throats capacity for hollering/as in your next smile/as in what these hands are best at.