Adam D Weeks

Self-Talk

The most beautiful things are
because they choose to be. 

This morning the mirror whispered
cherry red hot and now I’m tracing stems 

on your tongue, teaching you the difference
between comment vous appelez-vous 

and comment tu t’appelles. Let me
tell you about you. How you look so fine 

in green, like a divine lime rolling around
the kitchen counter. I can call you kitchen 

counter and chop my fruit, no board
between us. I can call you rhubarb 

and cover your small pale body
with my palms, can beg you to squeak 

and pop into bloom. Or you can plant
your hands in the ground. You can 

dig yourself out, leafing and fruiting all over
me, singing yourself into a sharp summer 

salad, crooning eat me, eat me,
you know you’re hungry, now eat.

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Adam D Weeks has a BA in Creative Writing from Salisbury University and is currently a second-grade teacher in Baltimore City. He is a founding editor of Beaver Magazine and won the 2022 Third Wednesday Poetry Contest. He has been a Pushcart Prize nominee and has poetry published or forthcoming in Fugue, Poet Lore, Sugar House Review, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Sycamore Review, Thrush and elsewhere.