Engorged

Tart orange juice dribbles down,
it slips between my open lips
searching for a place to rest
between coffee and toothpaste.

Such cursive undulation
of damp drops are impeded
by a sleeve, where wandering thought
of prosciutto forms its nest.

Mellifluous screams / defiant
jazz tickles ear folds with hunger –
hunger. Wild carrots, curling
parsley, honey’s sweet sting,

each flirtation the mouth tastes
ripe and rotten, mental collapse,
crude like sprouting potatoes.
I tuck a napkin under my thigh.

Hunger, my melted will, my aching
agony erupts, help me –  help wipe
my mouth, my tongue, my snot, and 
tears. I find no rest in this place.

Macy Adams is a second year MFA student in Poetry at Oklahoma State University. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English – Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma. Her writing often explores uncanny and obscure themes and her work has been published in various small presses, including Oyster River Pages.