Inside a Raspberry by Jeremy Radin

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Inside a Raspberry

for seventy years / we slept / inside a raspberry / feet plaited together / warm as dog breath / we
collected our snorings / built a child / she slept between us / dreaming of a barn / a scarlet
sturgeon / swimming in the air / the walls of the raspberry / tiny rubies / when I scream in the car
/ at the wallet I’ve forgotten / at the hands of the body / that obeyed the forgetting / when I tear
the small hairs / out of my heart / & braid a rope / & make a loop / I try to remember / what
hasn’t happened yet / with my brain / which is shaped like a raspberry / or an animal / that has
washed up on shore / & is small / & is god / & is shivering 


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Jeremy Radin is a poet, actor, and teacher. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Gulf Coast, The Cortland Review, The Journal, Vinyl, Passages North, and elsewhere. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Slow Dance with Sasquatch (Write Bloody Publishing, 2012) and Dear Sal (not a cult press, 2017). He lives in Los Angeles where he once sat next to Carly Rae Jepsen in a restaurant. Follow him @germyradin

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