Mo Gallacio
Summer
In their pens the watermelons are restive
vying for attention. Voluptuous
showing off their curves; dark green
perfect globes, resonant as tom toms.
Luxuriating in the heat, shameless -
radiating sun and "come and get me".
A tiger striped giant winks furiously:
smitten - I scoop it up
and hugging it to me, lug
it home - precariously
balanced on one hip.
The kitchen cools with welcome shadows.
My prize, trembling on a platter,
sponged clear of dust
sweats gratitude and torpor.
Calmly reassuring, lending my weight
I steady it with my left hand, and with my right
and an old serrated bread knife
make a series of swift,
neat, surgical incisions.
A gasp, a sigh, oh so thankful
to be freed from the restrictive casing - at last
it relaxes into a repetition
of vivid
joyous
fleshy
grins.
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