Rita Dove is from Akron, Ohio. A brilliant scholar, she eventually earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has a lot of great work, but "Chocolate" felt most appropriate today as chocolate is the only worthwhile aspect of Valentine's Day.
Chocolate
by Rita Dove
Velvet fruit, exquisite square
I hold up to sniff
between finger and thumb -
how you numb me
with your rich attentions!
If I don't eat you quickly,
you'll melt in my palm.
Pleasure seeker, if i let you
you'd liquefy everywhere.
Knotted smoke, dark punch
of earth and night and leaf,
for a taste of you
any woman would gladly
crumble to ruin.
Enough chatter: I am ready
to fall in love!
Read, listen, share, create, and be on watch.
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