A Soul Song for Interstitial Cystitis 

Do prunes miss being plums? 

Well hung in bunches 

plump, purple bumps 

blooms buzz-in the bees 

then plucked to dry alone 

shrink, shrivel, sugar-bled 

black sheep of the dried fruit family,  

apricots, orangely luscious, live on in trail mix 

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Issue 23

Christa Fairbrother

Christa Fairbrother, MA, has had poetry in Arc, Epiphany, Pleiades, and Salamander, among others. Currently, she’s Gulfport, Florida’s poet laureate, and she has been a Pushcart Prize nominee and a finalist for the Leslie McGrath Poetry Prize, The Prose Poem Competition, and The Wilder Prize. Connect with her at www.christafairbrotherwrites.com.