A reluctant earth
Tilled purple black
With hard water—
I will not live in this garden.
This rotted apple
Against which I will not put my lips
I will not swallow its bruised brown flesh
So I bear a second mark
That is yours.
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Is this mark ashen? Or am I "off the mark" so to speak?