Benihana

by Robyn Schelenz

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trees go to benihana.
it’s the kind of place everyone must go once.
undersized shrimp are thrown into their leaves.
in fact, they replace the leaves.
intrigued and embarrassed
pinkish, the trees go away
down by the river
they drop them carefully.
watching them float off
they feel for them as broccoli.
hoping for the best
they believe they are seeds.

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About the Author

Robyn Schelenz is from Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, and lives in San Francisco. Her work can be found in Maudlin House, Back Patio Press, Gone Lawn, Touch the Donkey, DUSIE, JAKE and elsewhere. Her chapbook "Natural Healing," a collection of short poems, prose poems and fables about the (un)natural world, is out from Bottlecap Press.