7/14/12

Taste of Cherry
By Anahita Ayasoufi, Ph.D.

If life is too short,

       why make a big deal

             of the red feathers

              of a cardinal,

                 or the music

                    of the ocean waves,

                       or taste of cherry?

       Why talk about love,

             if it never lasts for eternity?

What’s eternity,

      if not a feeling

             captured in a blink—

                   short-lived, but intense.

Yes,

      life is too short.

            Let’s make a big deal

                of the red feathers

                   of a cardinal,

                     and the music

                       of the ocean waves,

                          and taste of cherry.

            Let’s make a big deal

                of love while it lasts.   

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I teach at East Tennessee State University, and have fiction published in Every Day Fiction, Lorelei Signal, Yesteryear Fiction, Bosley Gravel's Cavalcade of Terror, Mirror Dance, and Liquid Imagination.