It’s the consistency of flesh that drives us, how a pome ascends the stairs of its origin. A boy shakes pears down off the higher branches as his friends scavenge underneath, groping for the thing necks. If you find yourself holding one, hungry, if that’s the word, then you are testament to what festers in
Chad Davidson is the author of From the Fire Hills (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), The Last Predicta (Southern Illinois University Press, 2008), and Consolation Miracle (Southern Illinois University Press, 2003), and the coauthor, with John Poch, of Hockey Haiku: The Essential Collection (St. Martin’s Press, 2006). He teaches at the University of West Georgia and lives in Carrollton, Georgia.