Ripe Apples

by Jessica Rigney

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Ripe Apples appears in the anthology, Thought For Food, published in 2020 by South Broadway Press to benefit Denver Food Rescue. Monies paid by fans for this track will be donated to Denver Food Rescue. Acquire the entire anthology of stunning pandemic era poems authored by the hearts of so many lovely poets at bit.ly/3g2k8gS

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Ripe Apples

You make of me a magician—
a laborer supplicant and servant
as I bring the corners of the cloth

together and know you see—
know of your marveling at my hands and
how they come together. It is I

who fashions a new heart each morning
awake to ripe apples which appear
inside the curve of my arm as though

I’d gathered them in my sleep.
Reveries write themselves upon the day
I say. Prefiguring every kindness falling

at my feet. By night they are siphon
for the sorrow tonguing my boots.
You make of me a witness—

stalwart bearer of deprivations
of sleep as I peel carrots at midnight
and know your eyes follow the line

of my shoulder to elbow to wrist and
how they work together still. It is you
who with your arms unloosening

‘round the waste of me lost beyond
these endless unnamed days—you
who magics the seasons back from before

the stay.
Name not I, but the it which is this.
I say.

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released July 25, 2020
Words & Music by Jessica Rigney

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