Sunday, March 20, 2022

Trifle

 If you were a fruit, 

you wouldn't be a pear

though your curve

bespeaks a cool and soothing air


No, if you were something 

  a hand can touch with dangling reach

         the eye straining to see through leaves

you might be a firm and ripening peach


   At this my turn of phrase breaks down

because you're not a thing to be devoured

 nor dropped into baskets on the ground 

   horita, I'm forced to conjure flowers


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