A man finds a melon

..

                        A man finds

a melon by the road and continues up

the hill thinking it is the warm melon

that will remain after he has forgotten

the ruins and sea of the summer. He tells

himself this even as the idea of the taste

is replacing what the melon tasted like.

Jack Gilbert

The Dance Most

  of All: Poems

  Not Easily

  [fragment]

op. cit.

Ryan McGinley

2007