A Dangerous Season
After turning by Lucille Clifton
This dangerous season
Grows heavy on the vine
Swelling with potential
Anticipation sweet on the tongue
The urge to pluck unripened fruit looms.
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So compact, yet lush with tasty words. A great write!
Love this! You pegged it as dangerous, and it is. I am guilty of plucking too soon.
Yay! Perfect mouthful. I love Lucille Clifton and this honors her.
ah, the danger of picking too soon!
Great energy and tension in these five lines.
Love: urge to pluck unripened fruit looms.
Is it truly unripened fruit or the allure of tasting the forbidden?
The bitterness of green apple, followed by the closing sweetness of honeysuckle nectar, assuage by the mellow flavor of a wild paw paw and cold spring water?