Choose a vegetable to meditate upon. Compare it to something. Use it to express an emotion or an abstract idea: love, frustration, friendship. Then try using a fruit.
Peel the Artichoke
Friendship
is an artichoke
all layered
in secrets.
Hear the
cricket snap of leaves
petals
tipped in silky maroon.
White
whiskers protect
the
heart.
Cook
warm,
squirt a
tang of sweet lemon.
Push
your tongue to savor the green,
see how
the leaves fall away.
Once at
the heart,
ah the
tingle, the sheen.
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