A PEEL on “ this is for us” Elizabeth Acevedo Helppp !!!

I once watched my father peel an orange  

without once removing the knife from the fruit.  

He just turned and turned and turned it like a globe  

being skinned. The orange peel becoming a curl,  

the inside exposed and bleeding. How easily he separated  

everything that protected the fruit and then passed the bowl  

to my mother, dropping that skin to the floor  

while the inside burst between her teeth.

~ Elizabeth Acevedo, “Things You Think While You’re Kneeling on Rice That Have Nothing to Do with Repentance:” in The Poet X (HarperTeen, March 6, 2018

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