FROM APPLE TO APOCALYPSE

FROM APPLE TO APOCALYPSE

from apple
to apocalypse

teeth breaking the skin
just one
juicy juice-spurting bite

ending on the agenda
time a thing to
be reckoned with,
spluttering into
action until
wholesale flow

and then
the agent of this tragedy
sliding away (gorgeous
coils

seemingly serene, and yet
electrically charged

nothing in this
ticking countdown
of a monstrous birth

wants anything to do
with dreams and fables
of pastoral continuity