i ate the apple at midday like it was swollen sunlight. i cleaned my mouth with saliva from my lover. i cleaned my body with leaves and prayer. i cleaned my body until it didn’t hurt. i cleaned my body with children. i ate apple after fleshy apple. i ate until it hurt again. i cleaned myself. i ate myself. i cleaned. i ate.
Joanna Cleary
Joanna Cleary is an undergraduate student double majoring in English Literature and Theatre and Performance at the University of Waterloo. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in The /tƐmz/ Review, The Hunger, Pulp Poets Press, Every Pigeon, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Subterranean Blue Poetry, among others. She is also currently a Blog Editor for Inklette Magazine.
