be palatable
/Megan Moss
like fruit on a windowsill.
ripen quietly
do not speak of the orchard
the hand that plucked you green.
forget the wind
forget the branch
you were chosen
isn't that enough?
Author’s Statement: I wanted to encapsulate how desire can erase origin. That sometimes in our own transformation we can lose ourselves. The fruit on the windowsill becomes a body in transition, caught between what it once was and what it is becoming. It’s aware of the light cascading around it, of the hands that are watching it, the inevitability of its change even as it carries memories. It’s a reminder to remember where you started, even as you ripen into something new.
Bio: Megan Moss is a writer and poet from Kingston, Oklahoma. She has been published in The Madison Review, River and South Review, Waymark Literary Magazine, Moonstone Arts Center, Waccamaw Journal, and her university’s literary journal Originals, of which she is also part of the student editorial team. Megan is currently a senior at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, majoring in English.
