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the tasted, apples

", . ashleigh' m, smith, II

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I still remember waking once we got·the red fruit, i
yesterday morning fleshy and fertile, the '~
to those twenty-leagues- knowledge
under-the-sea would come to us. We didn't 'J
deep green eyes,'stariRg /~
down+af me
from,tge~side of our bed" ,fear that today, our two
laughing at daylight glowing
through the dusty windows misshapen pies .
into our bedroom.
Brown hair wrapped your left to rest on cooled wire
glass face,
" t.r.i.Lcekd. down your neck, racks, '0
entwined
with a delicate purple air delicious with the scent
ribbon.
of cinnamon

and nutmeg; smiles muttered

Ln the background of the

living room

with the rumor of the .news

at 5, we would find ourselves

Standing side by side, we denied
leaned over the double by the~35 votes cast,
porcelain sink, tied in with silk ties
peeling apples chosen from and silver cuff links,to
the orchard control the fate
down EsworthY'for a dollar a' of 300 million strangers;
pound,. by, them, ,our loye defined:
satisfied,_.walking. back in illegal.
the cool
Pennsylvania. sun, a hand . ~,
for each oth~r. Kitchen-
water splashes ~l
on old tee-shirts evaporate

'.slowly,
,.'collecting, mixing with

melted
butter and flour. You wanted
apple pie, to save for
oct.obe r , '
though neither of us knew
how'

~? make'it, and the years
when mothers
taught daughters to cook
had long passed. We Aigured,