He Picks Good Peaches
Karen deBalbian Verster

He picks good peaches,
always firm and sweet, never mushy. Surely
that is a worthy trait
in a man. To possess the sensitivity
to divine the true nature
of something that always looks good on the outside
regardless of its inside.
The acuity to read the Braille of its surface --
fingertips gently questing, never bruising --
and penetrate its heart. Two entities exchanging _____energy --
horses rubbing noses -- and then becoming one _____through ingesting.
Juice is involved as in all fun activities, juice that is _____meant
to be licked. Juice that proclaims
its time on the tree when sunshine is absorbed and _____added
to the current of life.

Rubbed, ingested, absorbed,
we are now more than we were apart.