There is nothing significant
about the apple which rests, forgotten
on a stone plate on the table.
There is nothing significant
about the table either:
it is round and made of plastic.
The bruises on the apple
do not alter the appleness of apples;
the smudged whiteness of the table
does not alter the tableness of tables.
The apple, red-flecked and ripe,
is ripe for a time only.
The table is bare,
save for the apple, and the stone plate,
at its centre.
- Eduard Burle
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