Slicing An Apple
1.
for the smoothness is gone
only now, do i detect
stone too cool
for the ends of the fingers.
2.
often my watch
seemed broken unable to keep time
i smile now
for i will never be on time.
3
i use to watch time
with roman numerals
but know time watches me
so i see myself
walk by backwards.
4.
as words disperse from a old dictionary
the pages
all have the same chapters .
but new characters grow on the branches
as the stars
swim where the leaves
of knowledge cannot touch.
5.
now is the time
for touching the lips are plump
with temptation
but poems still taste of ink.
6.
fruit with seeds
in the inner chambers
the metaphor that hides inside
that will reproduce
other symbols
as i cut it into segments of slices
for somewhere a teacher waits...
Copyright © Andrew Rymill | Year Posted 2006
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