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A clementine

Of inclement climate

Grows tart.

A crocus

Too stoic to open,

Won’t.

Like an oyster

That cloisters a spoil of pearls,

Untouched—

The heart that’s had

Enough

Stays shut.

© 2009, Jill Alexander Essbaum

Jill Alexander Essbaum

Jill Alexander Essbaum

(United States of America, 1971)

Born in Bay City, Texas, poet and editor Jill Alexander Essbaum was educated at the University of Houston, the University of Texas and the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest. Influenced by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Simon Armitage and Sylvia Plath, Essbaum’s poems bring together sex, divinity and wordplay, blithely working with received forms and displaying a nuanced attention to rhyme and meter...

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A clementine

Of inclement climate

Grows tart.

A crocus

Too stoic to open,

Won’t.

Like an oyster

That cloisters a spoil of pearls,

Untouched—

The heart that’s had

Enough

Stays shut.

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