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Offering
I ripen: heavy with juice, dizzy with flavor, sweet, complex, sticky. Pick me.Bite into me.Feel me drip down your chin. I am that good. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Dinner in Eden
The fruitnewly, neatly peeled and sliced,fanned across the plate,waits for them. "Why not?" she asks."What possible difference could it make?" Silence. "That's the crux, isn't it?We don't know–We can't know until we know." She inhales:"It smells heavenly–both sharp and sweet–like… Continue reading
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Summer in the Garden of Eden
So hot.Naked is good when you sweat this much.He climbs the tree in search of a breeze.Ah, here it is.Sunlight through leaves patterns his brown skin. He sighs for companionship.Where is that snake?Of all the animals,the one with words. Much… Continue reading