Janice D. Soderling has fiction, poetry and translations at many online and print publications. Her work is forthcoming at Rattle, Mezzo Cammin, Per Contra, Hobart (print) Wasifiri, Blink|Ink, Measure, The Evansville Review, and BODY. She lives in Sweden.

Janice D. Soderling

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Go Figure

(triolet)

I kissed a boy with pale green eyes
in the fig tree's cooling shade.
He loved me true. I told him lies.
I left that boy with pale green eyes.
How could I do otherwise?
He trembled like a timid maid.
I kissed a boy with pale green eyes
in the fig tree's cooling shade.