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A Poem by Cole Hayley
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alt title: "apple head"

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i don't breathe around you
i hold my heart in my throat until
the moment where it beats too much
and completely pushes my adam's apple up
and then, like eve in the garden, i swallow sin
whole 


© 2016 Cole Hayley


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Oh damn, I love this. Short and precise. Such a unique and vivid description of emotion and anxiety physicalized. The allusion to eve in the garden of Eden and the idea of swallowing sin who was amazing. It seemed to me like repression of "sinful" thoughts and feelings or something. The way the lines are arranged has an escalating feeling to the point where the Adam's apple is swallowed
whole.

Also the contrast between Adam's apple and Eve was really interesting to think about. Really incredible poetry, I'm saving this one:)


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Cole Hayley
Cole Hayley

Montreal, Canada



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