I slice six tart Northern Spy apples
into an oiled 8×8 inch bake pan
then sprinkle them with sugar
dark with cinnamon.
Yes, Ma
I wash the apples well
but I don’t peel away
vitamins and fibre
in long unbroken spirals
nor do I...
Mary H. Rykov is a Toronto-based music therapist and academic editor who has written and reviewed for such as The Arts in Psychotherapy, Journal of Palliative Care and the Journal of Health Psychology. Her poems have been published in Carousel, Misunderstandings Magazine and Jones Avenue, and anthologized in Close to Quitting Time: An Anthology Depicting the Various Facets of Work (Ascent Aspirations, 2011) and The Art of Poetic Inquiry (Backalong Books, 2012). She searches for a publisher for her first poetry collection, Dear Mr. Rilke and Other Poems.
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