Don’t be polite.Bite in.Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice thatmay run down your chin.It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.You do not need a knife or fork or spoonor plate or napkin or tablecloth.For there is no coreor stemor rindor pitor seedor skinto throw away.
Spack a spack speck flick a flack fleckFreckling the windowpane.A spatter a scatter a wet cat a clatterA splatter a rumble outside.Umbrella umbrella umbrella umbrellaBumbershoot barrel of rain.Slosh a galosh slosh a galoshSlither and slather a glideA puddle a jump a puddle a jumpA puddle a jump puddle sploshA juddle a pump a luddle a…
TwilightSky light.Purple as a king’s capePurple as a grape.Purple for the eveningWhen daylight is leaving.Soft and purry,Gentle and furry,Velvet evening-time.Purple,Purple.Sky lightGoodbye light.DuskyMuskyInto night.
I set it on the floorbut it ran right out the doorI chased it on my bicyclebut it melted to an icicleI scooped it up in my hatbut it turned into a catI caught it by the tailbut it stretched into a whaleI followed it in a boatbut it changed into a goatWhen I fed…
