graft

it took craft
handed down one gardener
to the next
shears and secateurs to make the cut

apple so juicy
with incorporated branches
blushing cheeks
sweet deniability

waxed to perfection
teachers' meager wages

but the birds seeded
sour gnarled hardy
tempting no one

and left uncut




Poetry by Katarina Wikholm
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Written on 2016-07-12 at 10:15

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Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
A fine poem and a lesson. I wondered why I get the latter from my tree (and the pears are even worse).
2016-07-13


one trick pony The PoetBay support member heart!
i usually take poems literally, not metaphorically, so i see this as gardener's poem, a fact-of-nature poem. it's vivid and true. i would quibble with "tempting no one," surely the wasps appreciate what the birds have wrought.

terrific. i love the reminder of an apple for the teacher, so quaint!
2016-07-12



The indifference if the worlds a terrible thing. This poem dictates that well but could be better perhaps more imagery to go with the metaphor and a smoother flow?
2016-07-12