Tuesday Poem: An Alien's Notes on first seeing a prunus-plum tree, by Jane Matheson

An Alien's Notes on first seeing a prunus-plum tree

by Jane Matheson



This is a device for recycling air

...so intelligently functional in its design

yet aesthetically pleasing in its line.

These delicate rose-petalled flowers...

so soft to stroke, you can do it for hours!

It is wondrous too

that in the heat of the summer sun,

these flowers become

marble-sized ruby-red rounds

of delectable fruit-flesh.



Humans call it a prunus-plum tree

I would very much like

to take it back with me.



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