Fresh Peaches
Broken fruit stacked forward,
tender, lip-soft skins scuffed
among her unspoiled sisters.
Lonely is the unripe peach
turning her sun-side out, beckoning,
longing to be washed and tasted—
ignorant of her own green bitterness.
They always reach past the imperfect.
But for the fruit,
the reaching stops.
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