Alexithymia

Hunger is a seed

stuck halfway down 

my throat,

and I am running 

over to the stream, drinking fast

to wash it down

but for nothing.

Green shoots emerge,

squeeze their way up and out

like a Sesame Street time-lapse 

in my esophagus.

Sunflower disc florets feed

finches their breakfast

from my open mouth.

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