Apple Whisky by Liz Kornelsen

The apple 
juiced straight from Eden
delicious, intoxicating
clink of glasses
sips of crunchy red skin

how could she predict
the fleeting satiation
the insatiable desire
that she would bear the brunt
follow the serpentine path of exile


Liz Kornelsen is a prairie poet from Winnipeg, Manitoba and the author of Arc of Light and Shadow: Poems with Art. To dance lightly on the earth in solitude, with other humans, or with other forms of nature, is one of her greatest joys.