Living with Nature's Candy

A monthly, long-form Substack photoetry collaboration

Fruit, the friendly feast—

Destroyed by some who see

Unattained perfection state

Get in the way of you and me.

The apple, eaten,

Is not temptation itself.

Tree fruit remains for us to gorge

In sickness and in health.

Supply chains expose

Pesticides, geopolitics, exploitation—

Too much

For luxuries to go unrationed.

Fruit, been turned to foe—

Remade by other needs.

The love-hate nature's glee and gloom

Starves out as much as feeds.

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