Love Poems from the Produce Section

1. The Apples Speak

It is what it is.
Some of us are soft and red.
Some of us are voluptuous beyond belief.
We will come to you hard
as rubies.
When you rip into our rigid flesh
we will slide across your teeth
thick as menses.

2. Avocado Dreams

Inside my armadillo coat
I am slick as oil.
Choose me.
Choose me.
I will slip down your throat
quick as a lover leaving your bed,
peeling satin sheets
in one long tangle at your feet.
You will always remember me,
always remember me.
I am the green fields
of your wild horse dreams.
As close to you as
the creamy marrow of your bones.

3. Sacred Voices of Sweet Potatoes

Touch us.
Touch us.
Just touch.
Shove your rough digits
down deep into the pit
of our artful pyramid.
We will not topple.
We will not fall.
We are stacked as tight
as bound as an Egyptian orgy.
Feel how our coarse skin
sloughs away your sins.
We are manna.
Take. Eat.
Devour us in the raw.

4. And Finally, the Banana

What can I say?
If you put your hands on this oar
of mine, I will row with you straight
across the desert.
No stiff wind needed.
Blow across the bend of my harp.
Swallow my simple tune.
Take me in both fists
and throw. I am a boomerang
that will come back
and back
and back to you.
I promise.