The Idea of God | Bianca Rodriguez

Bianca Rodríguez received her BA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago. Her poems and short stories can be found in Allium and Hair Trigger. In 2022, she was chosen as a Poet Representative for DePaul’s Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival. When she’s not writing, you can find her cooking with friends or wearing down another pair of converse. The Idea of God and Other Sweet Things is her first published chapbook.      After Eating a Peach If you satiated every nerve, every pieceof peach and tender bruising, would you remembereach feeling between your fingertipsafterwards? That soft fuzz before breakingthe skin? Would you retire in thisshared ground under the tree that fedyou? Entangle your legs in its roots, flick the soilunder your nails and shake the sunlightfrom your hair? Would you let the aftermathcollect down your chin, evaporate into crystalsof sugar? What would you do with that seed, feelingof ephemeral pleasure, sitting in your palm?