Onions
As the battered pickup trundles
away, I heave myself out of a dead
uncle's Buick and roll up the bounty
in my maternity top, hard belly
to the fading sun. Ten feet
from my scrambling lay fields barren
of sun-dried onions, vigorously
beheaded by migrants. I watch
night swallow the truck as fat
treasures tumble from a wooden
cage into pungent haze. Tonight
supper will be chicken pasole
bulging with slightly sauteed onions
and whole mushrooms. Tonight
the baby will feel my pulse.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCCDECFGEHIAHA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 467 |
Words | 83 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
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