He pointed out the apple.

She naively bit her lip, but

not her tongue, and said

Wouldn’t that be wrong?

Who says what’s wrong,

he said, then laughed.

If one is good, and one

bad simply in saying,

should the word hold sin,

or the one who speaks

into division? Do words

so stage our reactions,

or are our words an apple

offered up in innocence?

(October 7, 2018)