Avocado green – redolent of
sickening seventies bathroom suites
But that green is only one variety
most avocados are black
Black and knobbly skins belie
smoothest of pale green flesh within
Smooth till smashed and served on toast
the latest trendy café go to – with marmite please
Go to Israel and elsewhere to see groves of
avocados greedily sucking the soil dry
Avocados ripen to the point of ripening
but left on the tree – ripen no more till picked
The ripeness of an avocado is inscrutable
hiding buttery softness or bruised decay – till cut open…
© Andrew Wilson, 2023
Tonight dVerse Poets Pub is hosted by Melissa Lemay in Uncategorized – here…