Comments on: Dictionary Fruit

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:50:57 +0000

Can one write about pomegranates and not touch on the erotic, I wonder? Glad you liked the poem, Dick.

By: Dick

Dick — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:48:20 +0000

Cupid and Edesia. Shades of Lawrence’s fig here. The erotic element has been touched upon in the comments, but it seems to me a crucial component in this fine poem.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:21:38 +0000

It has to be pretty ripe, I think. But I’ll admit my memory may be in error.

By: David Harmon

David Harmon — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:24:44 +0000

It also appears in the legend of Persephone and Hades.

I would think that eating a pomegranate with a spoon would be not merely “un-Japanese”, but nearly impossible. Unless you first extract the seeds to a bowl….

By: Tumblewords

Tumblewords — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:53:18 +0000

Well crafted touches. Thin leather – finely descriptive.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:52:36 +0000

Thanks. I’m glad that worked for you.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:52:05 +0000

Thanks, David. I appreciate the reassurance that this poem does indeed suggest what I hoped it would.

I went to hear a reading from a wonderful fiction writer the night before last, and much as I loved the story he read (and the way he read it), I kept thinking how overwritten it seemed. I do like understatement sometimes.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:48:48 +0000

The pomegranate was all through the ancient Near East. According to the Wikipedia, even the coins of Judea were stamped with it. It was, like, the uber-fruit.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:46:53 +0000

O.K., I agree with that. I’ll think of something else. Thanks.

By: Wendy Brown-Baez

Wendy Brown-Baez — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:10:06 +0000

I love the ending…especially that it was red.