Do I Dare To Eat A Peach?

Do I dare

Disturb the universe?

In a minute there is time 

For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

-from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot

Poor peach tree. I was busy shaking the snow off the Deerbrush tree in my garden, the Birch by the driveway, and I never looked over past the piles of snow by the road and saw your two exterior branches bending to the ground from the weight. Snapped. You aren't my tree, per se, but I seem to be the only one who notices you, so doesn't that make me responsible? And think of all of those juicy, fragrant peaches that never will be! 

I heard that fruit trees, just about to bud, will bloom if you bring them indoors. So with a muddled heart I clipped the branches, and arranged them in a vase.

...and two days later, it is true. 

The snow dumps outside, again, but indoors it is a miracle of Spring.

Comments

[Marleah]

oh wow! that is so wonderful and so beautiful!!!

[*winter]

Amazing!

[leora]

how gloriously unrealistic would it be if peaches sprung from those branches?! you could have a little peach factory in your living room!

it's a shame about all the early fruit tree blooms. now the snow is freezing them all, such a bumsky.

[pelin]

you are the peach of my eye