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I admire the bodies of spoons
Generous, spacious and deep
like full moons
they illuminate my insides
With miso granules, vitamin rich tides,
seaweed soup.

I savor the decisive shapes of forks
Sectioned into wands, poignant
straightened torques
of rationalized emotion
Warm, weightless broth,
nut-salad potion
concoction.

I grip tightly the edges of knives
Aggressive, sharp
individual lives,
They tear muscle into beef head
finely sliced,
sharp and serrated
rose-nail pricks.

Farrah Sarafa is a poet, teacher, editor and cultural activist living in New York City. A graduate student at Columbia, in Comparative Literature, she has been writing and has won various awards for her poetry since she was very young. Her work has been published in various literary magazines such as Chistell, FriGG, Arabesques, and Litchfield Review. She was the second place winner of the Marjorie Rappaport Poetry competition, (University of Michigan) spring 2003 for "Olive" and that same year "Paul Kutner" was chosen for publication by an American Library of Poetry" publication.

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