This is Just to Say
This is Just to Say
- after William Carlos Williams
I was grateful for the shimmery pieces of watermelon.
Each cool, watery wedge
of silvery-red
slid down my parched, tired throat -
quenching thirst.
Translucent seeds and fruity fibers
swirled with pinkish-white -
not too sweet like cantaloupe or honeydew....
I swallowed the last icy
bite.