Fresh juice runs down her chin. Fresh autumn air
climbs through the orchard. It’s apple picking time.
A zipping swoosh overhead with laughs and legs
swinging. Bushel baskets, cram-filled, on the ground.
Can’t reach? A palm will hoist children onto a branch.
The unwaxed orbs plucked until each tree is bare.
Deep diving, winding through the trees, to find more.
Occasionally, snatching a good one around the roots.
Bees are buzzing - the sweetness is driving them wild.
Robust garden, of Autumn’s breast, beating, with hearts.
Teen boys spy the apple of their eyes - cute schoolgirls
wrapped in wool whilst parents shop for cider and doughnuts.
Favorite apples go home: Honeycrisp and Cosmic Crisp,
Granny Smith, Pink Lady, McIntosh, and Green Apple Dragon.
Depends on where you live, whether the apple makes
a sound at all, whether Newton’s offspring knocks you out.
Time to go home, make a Dutch apple pie, something sour
or sweet, take a bite out of the tree of life, drizzled with caramel.
Categories:
unwaxed, america, fruit, fun,
Form: Verse
At the drug store, what to choose?
All those choices do confuse.
Vitamins for gals or men?
Over 50? Pick again!
DayQuil, NyQuil, ZzQuil or
Generic ones made by the store?
Tablets, caplets, maybe gels?
Wonder which one better sells.
Dental floss in mint or plain?
Waxed or unwaxed? What a pain!
Lotions for your winter itch
Look the same, so which is which?
I’m exhausted when I leave
Even though I do believe
Products with a different name,
Though hyped as best, are all the same!
Categories:
unwaxed, confusion, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Mere means of being master of all labor, this power
Overthrows all virtue, and write the metered history
Nations spin web in web, and now it is the cocoon hour
Emerge the spider on spindly legs from calyx tragedy
Yelping bankers and their merchants billed for all wars
Consumers credit lost, money minting on us its scars
Ruined trust in men awake us to being pawns of greed
Economy after economy in goldless tatter and its shame
Dies, drizzle, toxic in resuurection the fawned at weed
Industrialist used to circumvent taboos in the blind game
Trapping with historic dream the energy of men stagnant still.
I come not to Zion yet but old Jerusalem in desert sand
Sighing at the prints, O garrulous the nail marked hand
Debt and deal transacted, the calyx shrivels in winkless sun
Orbituuary of Babel's history, Mammon's feathers unwaxed
Nature in sure cycles recovers, wind breaks the spider spun
Emancipated faith confronts the Ceasar, ransomed and taxed
Categories:
unwaxed, business, on work and
Form: Acrostic
Unwaxed apples fall.
Piñata gum balls red tease
the orchard's sweet tooth.
Categories:
unwaxed, food, happiness, life, nature,
Form: Haiku