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ten small lemons….
why
faint orange and
tinged with
green…?
quietly fragrant,
inviting investigation;
skin stretched towards
the pointed end,
to a smutted crown;
sat snug in a
bright-sky-blue-edged
raised-rim plate;
blue mingled with
random spots, whorls, streaks,
dotted reds, swirling yellows,
green-thorn spikes.
ten small lemons….
weightless circus tumblers,
relaxed acrobats,
buoyant trapezists;
no squashing, no
straining, no
sweating, no tension:
afloat…
the weightlessness of
those above
borne by
those beneath.
2.
glass Taj-Mahal jar:
ten plain Palmers Cream crackers
atop one another;
nine as electromagnetic plates -
crisp and serried column -
one, dissenter,
angled across the tower,
corners jutted over
each
cliff
edge.
3.
one packet of elastic polyester folded end on end -
one long strip of sunwashed spaghetti.
4.
Canterbury-grey dish…
pouting children's
lower lips at either end
greyed darker than the rest -
the back of a Negro's hand.
three foil plates on a
fruit plate,
sliding….
four oil-green
small shiny
Granny Smith apples
each one balanced on the
pencil-point edge
of its sphere.
one lone apple
behind on its
bottom:
a lighter green,
less oiled.
four Kiwifruit
losing their flesh
within their skin,
mothers deflated
after the
birth of their babies -
or worse,
the trophy heads
of a cannibal tribe. |