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June Jasmine
Pick Me
—after Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit by Paul Cezanne
No two things
are the same. Look
for the mouth
of a volcano,
Marilyn Monroe’s lips,
stronium nitrate flare
if you’re into combustion
chemistry, fire before
snuff, desire before
touch. Go on,
take a bite. Find out
where I got
my flamenco flame.
June Jasmine is a poet, immigrant, and educator who writes about longing and belonging. Her poems appear in Opol, PHIL LIT, The Turning Leaf Journal, Zhagaram Literary, and other journals and anthologies. When not writing poems, she is obsessing over the periodic table of elements.
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