Questions About Apples, by Renee Cassese

Questions About Apples

Which galaxy did the star

At the center of this apple

Come from?

If I take a big enough bite

Of it can I leave the garden?

If I peel this golden delicious fruit

All in one long yellow curl

Can I follow it to the center of your soul?

Why did this black worn

Choose you for its home?

If Johnny Appleseed had planted pear trees

What would I be holding in my hand at this moment?

Is the apple’s sweet/tart taste

A reflection of life?

I want to capture in the gentle cup of verses the soul of life—- mine, yours, every living creature’s.

then came the rains crying into the earth tears providing nourishment for flowers unbloomed then came the rains

And this is the rainbow of leaves—bouquets of fire and brilliance that almost blind me yet I don’t blink

Beneath a snow quilt in its bedroom of frozen soil—- Does the crocus bulb know that come spring she’ll be the first flower to bloom?