today i have a pear to eat
it is my third this week
i got the first as a gift on sunday
it looked nearly ripe then and it was huge
red freckled lenticles speckled yellow-green skin
(dewy rainbow trout and it seemed really hard)
i kept it in my bag on my travels but could hardly think of anything else
all day
by the time i got home my juices were flowing and i retrieved that pear
it looked good and i rinsed it well
dried it with the kitchen towel,
buffing it till it glowed,
fat
i cut it into perfect quarters
core quartered too, pear pips intact
colour inside nearly white, flesh softly crisp
but moist-so-moisty tang and wet with sap
as was my palate
watering
i bit into the flesh it tasted of
angelcenters, sweetpearsweet
firmly holding its own in my mouth
the faintest struggle ensued inside
but of course my tongue wins every time
and swallowing is my choice
the cinnamony taste lingers for days
i have a pear to eat
did i tell you?
during mating rituals, facial expressions form an important part of intraspecies communication, and the zebra females will flatten their ears and open their mouths when receptive.
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