Sin Eating

by Christine Emmert

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I took a bite. Just a bite.

The sour under taste moved about my heart.

It was a taste I understood

through my own hunger.

 It had the salt of tears

and the bitterness of wormwood.

But I needed to eat,

and Sin was all that was offered.

I drained the goblet

thick with syrup

in order to swallow.

No cakes?  No soft puddings?  No honeyed spoonful?

I did not ask for seconds,

but they served them to me.

My stomach protested.

The meal ended with a small wizened apple

where the hunger began.

The taste of knowledge. 

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Christine Emmert

Christine Emmert is a writer, actress, director and educator whose work has been read/performed in the USA, UK and Canada. Her latest prose is Dreaming of Storms which can be accessed on Amazon and other book sites She is currently working on a short piece entitled Albatross at Sunset.