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Banana wine

Banana Wine
by Alyce Wilson

The fleshsore end of
brown mush
as the tongue clamps
down. As the tongue
makes of softened fruit
a mellow mash
of pulpy wine.

Banana wine.

Dessert of tropics,
monkey tempter,
a tongue salve. Stringy
mash, fruit mambo,
heat fine soma.

Banana wine.


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