ORANGE BO'

"..but in summer there is everywhere the luminous sprawl of gifts." --Mary Oliver


Sucking the sweetest
juice, scintillating
sugary essence
from the cut
and quartered orange,
I heard these few
but tasty words:

‘be available to yourself’

and I say now
to you who hear
or read these lines---
an orange never was better
nor made me happier
than before this brief phrase
burst forth like the sun
from scented flesh
of a single fruit
whose amazing aroma
lays still and strong
on the calloused tips
of my buzzing
lazy fingers.