Apples
Gillian Clarke
They fill with heat, dewfall, a night of rain.
In a week they have reddened, the seed gone black
in each star-heart. Soft thud of fruit
in the deepening heat of the day.
Out of the delicate petals1 of secret skin
and that irreversible moment when the fruit set,
such a hard harvest, so cold and sharp on the tongue.
They look up from the grass, too many to save.
A lapful of windfalls with worms in their hearts,
under my thumb the pulse of original sin,
flesh going brown as the skin curls over my knife.
I drown them in water and wine, pushing them under,
then breathe apples simmering in sugar and spice,
fermenting under the tree in sacs of juice
so swollen2 they'd burst under a wasp's foot.
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1 petals
n.花瓣( petal的名詞復(fù)數(shù) )
參考例句：
white petals tinged with blue 略帶藍(lán)色的白花瓣 The petals of many flowers expand in the sunshine. 許多花瓣在陽光下開放。 來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
2 swollen
adj.腫大的，水漲的；v.使變大，腫脹
參考例句：
Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因為整天站著，她的雙腿已經(jīng)腫了。 A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她，她的手臂腫起來了。
《Apples》添加時間：2024-12-14；更新時間：2025-03-09
