How To Eat A Guava
first rinse the fruit, rub the skin and inhale
make an incision with your eye tooth
a bite with a seesawing motion to break
that curved yellow moon surface
eat it
like you would kiss a longlost lover,
like you would taste the skin behind an ear
you cannot worry
about juice
separate the seeds from the flesh with your tongue
sift them down your throat
recall custard in expensive affair-soaked hotels
lemon mousse drowning the mouth in reckless garden sunsweat tussles
eat it
like you would plunge into a river in moonlight
like you would open your mouth and let the river in
like you would eat a stolen pear, a hot fig lush as a lovebite
eat it
like you would crush it onto skin, lower your head
confusing perfume with texture, tasting scent
under a collarbone, like you would lick a line of sweat up a spine
bite skin, flesh, seeds juice
eat it fast
like you were ravenous
parched, gluttonous, flushed with secrecy
eat it slowly
lick your fingers.
-Cate Kennedy-
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