Two Voices from the Garden
Eve and Adam remember the day they ate the forbidden fruit
EVE'S HUNGERWas it hunger for the fruit that made me reachand pluck from the forbidden tree that Autumn day,that made me turn and smell its fragrance,see it shining in that slant of light,walk, then run through weeds above my knees,shove aside the bending goldenrodswith my bare arms,ignore the humming bees,my eyes staring straight aheadat what I wanted dangling on the lowest branch?Why did I walk past other trees just as...