Summer Plum (Winter Version)

By Corety Frost
Flash Fiction · From the July/August 2004 magazine
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The next day I got up and went looking for the plum. It was still there. It occurred to me to ask, How is this a poem? More to the point, How is this a plum? I took a bite. I can see humanity from here, I thought to myself. Or at least, I can see parts of it.
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CoretyNovember 10, 2008 22:32 EST

hey i have the same name as you do, no joke. it is my middle name but I go by corety all the time. i was just wondering where you got it and i wanted to know the meaning of it. since i never had the chance to actualy know.
My mom just named me after a nurse. FYI i am a female. :) are you?

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