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

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

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….

Thanks. I’m glad that worked for you.

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.

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.

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