Apple – a poem by C. John Graham

Apple

bite & 
           break open
                      cricket tunes 

ambrosial blooms     
           white flesh 
                      and incandescent 

cocoons     swoon 
           & fancy     bee dances     branch-tangled 
                      moon lantern     leaf

green susurrus     
           root     vein      
                      heart      wood      un

pretentious 
           chalice of light    
                      turning     

whereto who    
           discovered the seed and 
                      the original fruit? 

C. John Graham’s poetry has appeared in The Laurel Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Kestrel, Taos Journal of Poetry and Art, and the anthology Off Channel, among other publications. Graham lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and before retirement, worked for a rocket engine manufacturing company and a particle accelerator facility. He is now owns an aerobatic aircraft and serves as a volunteer search and rescue pilot while continuing a lifelong spiritual inquiry. A selection of published work may be found at https://sites.google.com/site/cjohngraham/home/poetry.