Contributor Series 8: Feast and Famine
Apricot Harvest
By Kim Klugh
Dangling in clusters warm and ripe
velvety orange globes blush
under California sun
we pluck by the palm-full
from fruited limbs
the nectar-laden jewels
my thumb follows the skin's crease line
where the knife splits in half
the small sphere with a single slice
to reveal an almond shaped pit—
We bite through the supple skin
into the warm meaty flesh
then pile the excess fruit
into a deep sky blue day bowl
still tasting the swirls of summer sweetness
still savoring the sun on our tongues.
Kim Klugh's poem Grave Duty appeared as part of Contributor Series 7: The Confessional Diary of Bone at vox poetica in December 2010. 
Beautiful and evocative. I love "deep sky blue day bowl."
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Your poem is deliscious, as the fruit that comforts us.
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Lovely, lucious imagery.
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