A domestic blade is effective
in puncturing the metal,
and a drop of red
runs
over and out and down the
ridged side.
–
They had hung
among rolls of green
that tumbled under the hottest star,
east from here:
Dotted across weak furry stems, wan blossoms
bloom, growing globes of
Chartreuse
that become
Vermillion. Bobbing fruits
greedily suck the
loamy dirt
of its liquid,
swelling more and more
and more until
it cannot be borne,
and
they must come off
either by force,
or a fall.
–
Before the indefinite move to
blacked-out,
airless and
sealed cylindrical confinement,
a calculated application of fierce heat ensures that
translucent,
blood-red
skin separates
from collapsing,
ripened flesh
and they are drowned
– and presented
in their own juices.
