Tonight's Poet Corner: Hard Lemon

Hard Lemon
by Belinda Roddie

She had a face like a hard lemon,

peel baked over by the summer strokes,
the curl of zest vacated for the sake of stale,
glass left sour

without a sugary tang,

grim, grim, grim.

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