THREE LEMONS

I.

A man and a woman

Are a silence, a waiting.

A man and a woman and three lemons

Are a silence, a waiting.

II.

Assumptions

Unchecked, can bear

Their own tart fruit.

III.

An apology

Can take any shape

In the garden of the mind.

IV.

So many things

Can follow from

A yellow ellipsis.

V.

The tree in the yard

Never once thought of him or her

As its Meyers grew among the green leaves.

VI.

Sometimes fruit,

Bitter or not,

Is just fruit.