Dry Mouth

from Heart-Shaped Hands.

Photo by Layre Del Rio on Unsplash. Edited by Slaidey Valheim.

My mouth watered
for your crisp forbidden apple,
so I sewed my lips shut.

If I stayed quiet,
the preachers didn’t care
I was choking on my own spit.

You can find more memoir/prose by Slaidey Valheim here on the Bits & Bones publication.
Everything under the tag “Heart-Shaped Hands” are excepts from the same titled e-book, available on Amazon.
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