What's Your Roadside Peach? Poem & Prompt

In the Li-Young Lee poem “From Blossoms,” the narrator swallows not just a bite of peach but also the orchard where that peach grew; the fruit’s skin and the trees’ shade; even the dust from the roadside produce stand.

Read the whole poem on the website first.

Then chew on the final two stanzas of this poem—let the words dribble down your chin like juice from a ripe peach.

O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade,
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into   
the round jubilance of peach.

There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

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What do you love that you wish you could take inside?

What joyful, specific, visceral experience would you carry in yourself if you could, from beginning to end, every component or ingredient so rich you can taste it?

Write it.

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