Some say <br />it was a pear <br />Eve ate. <br />Why else the shape <br />of the womb, <br />or of the cello <br />Whose single song is grief <br />for the parent tree? <br />Why else the fruit itself <br />tawny and sweet <br />which your lover <br />over breakfast <br />lets go your pear- <br />shaped breast <br />to reach for?<br /><br />Linda Pastan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pears/
