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Bethany Powell

Bethany Powell
Bethany Powell

Bethany Powell imagines this poem happens in Tokyo, which makes it gritty and exciting as opposed to her country hometown Yonezawa. She has mangled the story of Momotarou for her own purposes. Other poetry inspired by nostalgia for Japan or her confinement to darkest Oklahoma can be found via bethanypowell.com.

Peach Baby

Peach Baby

Bethany Powell  | 02 Jun, 2015

The night I ate that peach
was thick with summer rainstorm.
If anyone was out in the street
under my window
they had cat-feet...

Poetry