Don’t be polite.
Bite in.
Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that
may run down your chin.
It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.
You do not need a knife or fork or spoon
or plate or napkin or tablecloth.
For there is no core
or stem
or rind
or pit
or seed
or skin
to throw away.
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.
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…
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…
