Sorry, that was misleading. We're really speaking about cutting up fruit, cantaloupe in particular. Also, it's more about editing than writing. Though editing is writing, isn't it? Like a poem, you don't know what you have until you cut into it. Sometimes you find the center full of seeds. How practical is joy! Salt and roast them. Reread the poem. Did I mean pumpkin?
CANTALOUPE TO ACCOMMODATE EDITING A POEM
cut
cube
&
save
the seeds
PUMPKIN TO ACCOMMODATE EDITING A POEM
cut
cube
&
roast
the seeds
MT's page 18
ReplyDeleteIncessant glances at the ripening melons-
he wished for rain and said so, many times
that day as we looked into the tide pools,
indications of noon. You can't believe the grins of children
climbing rocks by the bay.