The so sweet
and so cold
peaches

you love
were stolen
out of the fridge
early this morning

and I ate them all.

But I’m in too much of a hurry—
to ask for forgiveness.

Besides,
you’re busy
crafting emails
to so-and-so
from so-and-so

anyway.

Plus they were lousy.

Like all the fruit
this time of year.

It isn’t delicious.

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Ryan Di Francesco is a Canadian writer and teacher with a BA in English Literature. He’s the Editor-in-Chief of Shadow and Sax, an emerging literary magazine, where his poetry and short fiction have appeared. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Ink in Thirds, Bicoastal Review, Bitter Melon Review, Rawhead, SHINE Quarterly, SQUID Magazine, Azarão lit journal, The Orange Rose, The Amphibian Literary & Art Journal, The Page Gallery and more. His nonfiction and essays have appeared in The Toronto Star, The Hardball Times, and elsewhere. He also co-wrote the indie film Streets of Wonderland, which won multiple festival awards.