This poem is taken from Stand 244, 22(4) December 2024 - February 2025.

Bex Hainsworth Three Poems
Pomegranate

I have decided to write about the pomegranate,  
a fruit which knows it is entitled to odes.

From the Latin for ‘seeded apple’, later giving its name,
via the French, to grenades – appropriately bloody.
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