Pears

Pears 4 x 5 Large Format Rebecca Daniels 2012

Pears

Linda Pastan

Some say

it was a pear

Eve ate.

Why else the shape

of the womb,

or of the cello

Whose single song is grief

for the parent tree?

Why else the fruit itself

tawny and sweet

which your lover

over breakfast

lets go your pear-

shaped breast

to reach for?