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Poetry || SubmissionsA Ripening LoveBy Ben Landy Paintings by Silvia Rosenberg Carrot  Sliced or stripped it is unfooled A never repeated version of the oldest red tool. The dirt clinging to its skin, the vein Running full through the beam, yes! An exclamation point of crunchiness, unless Dipped in a pot of honey, boiled In the passions of water it becomes Unequivocally, the limp measure, The strangling embrace of time passing Over the heads of lovers. Pear  Bottoms and breasts and cellos sweetly too Cool in the imagined orchards of northern hills Shaped like itself and undisturbingly seeded The softly bit tit of summers recollected in singular taste Sweaty hanging balls of winter's covers Dry and damp, damp and dry, a pretence of coolness When passion tramps muddy feet Across the hand-woven carpet And in the room beyond, a pale face waiting Suddenly stranger to the place. Mushroom  Cloudy after rain dangers tossed In the stuffed mannerisms of French champs Carried in baskets on ladies crook'd arms Hunting with certain kinds of boars In hilly forests where the moss Grows north. Instantaneously White then graying A pulsating memory of Japanese gardens Where the soldier's version is always plucked, A soldier's version with heaven. Green pepper  Photographed as if one could ever forget The hollow spaces where water runs feelingly Among the white futures it would nourish. It is the topography of any hilly land Lying on its side at the beach, a virgin A green virgin awaiting a hand The raw crackling snap of color Spice, spice and surprise The strongly worded present, the now. Grapes  Glass wrapped and pleasurly aged When ripe a fly's harvest and young man's dream Of nymphet lips and what yet become A shriveled little old man, born too much In the sun, carried too far in the rain Trampled by feet too long in the faulty hopes of better dreams. It is the nipple nibbled or stripped of skin A shelter from a storm imagined; A happiness of lips pursed In the white redness of the moment. Lettuce  You and I, enabled by our past To be a head, a leaf, a green cup. Immensely rich and friend to the poor Dug up and washed up, dripping with beads Pearls of water falling in rhyme To the shape as it began, to the shape Of our achievement. Like strangers on a safari tour In deepest corners of the room, we track And scout discoveries, chart and mark the path. Garlic  This pale purple pink of flakes And stubborn peels In a city, in a village house hanging Always near people, with people, a people Itself twisted into wreaths Not kissing, yes kissing, it is a people Of separate bulbs contained in one bulb Contained in one taste of sweat and eagerness Yes, eagerness, the sweat of tasting eagerness A taste of lovers loving despite everything. Tomato  All water and seed running sideways In spraying splurt of spilt picnic Sitting unnaturally salted, soured, pickled and pureed 'til measured in soups practiced in souqs placated beside grave green overnight window sills, ripening in rays of dusty tiny illuminations in the morning light when birds the redness with speed the song. Onion  Peeled and peeled again, a forever pale Of its own contradictory opacity. It is the only smell, the only tear, the only Certain one. Peeled and peeled again, a forever Certain smell; the brown concealing light The circles a center, a concealed light of its own. A promising smell. Peeled and peeled again A revealing smell, a promising revelation, But never consumed, only consomme. Ben Landy is a pen-name for a high-tech entrepreneur who says he wishes "computers were never invented even though I use one about 15 hours a day." You can write to him c/o Ariga at Ben Landy c/o Ariga.Here's another poem by him. Silvia Rosenberg is a Tel Aviv-based painter and interior designer, married to Robert Rosenberg, of Ariga. More of her work, both paintings and design, can be seen at http://www.ariga.com/silvia Back to the Ripening Love paintings in Silvia's gallery Today's Situation
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