“Grapefruit,” by Angela Narciso Torres (Poetry ’09)

“Grapefruit,” a poem by 2009 poetry alumna Angela Narciso Torres, was recently featured in the American Poetry Journal. Read an excerpt below:

Grapefruit

Cutting through the equator of a grapefruit, my blade sinks into pink pulp.
A day like any other—warm gusts when I let the dog out.

Thirteenth of September. Mother’s birthday. Gone four moons.
I slip into her kaftan of orchids and zebra stripes, brew manzanilla tea…

Find the rest of this poem here: https://www.apjpoetry.org/grapefruit