gawd, that sharp glinty knife
coming at me quick (again)
that edge, sliding softly and then
slipping in past that tender push back
and then into me, and the skin splits
and the layers melt side-side
like butter giving way easy and quick
before that silver edge honed true.
and the top of me falls away
and there below gapes the rest of me
me, of the rest, prickly and pokey
and all artichokey…and another stroke
of the blade downward-sweeping
and turning, graceful curving
to scrape my sides and scour them
of all those chokes, every mis-spoke…
and then into hot water, steamy
scourging, softening, sweetening…
and edible at last…
a tender Heart-not-choked
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