Apples
By Peter Heller
You love apples So let’s speak Of apples
Say I were to hold you in my hand like an apple round and red
And kiss you in bites on the table or
Under the tree where you dropped tump
And you reached up in cool shadow on the grass
And bit back crunch: God
I’d laugh knowing dreams
Ask like this swallow by swallow
Source: Poetry (February 2015)