Friday 2 July 2010

Pomegranate

POMEGRANATE

–noun

1. a chambered, many-seeded, globose fruit, having a tough, usually red rind and surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes, the edible portion consisting of pleasantly acid flesh developed from the outer seed coat.
2. the shrub or small tree, Punica granatum, that bears it, native to south-western Asia but widely cultivated in warm regions.























There’s a fragile rose inside my window,
Made of pomegranate blossoms and seeds
Ruffled under the hand of antic winds
Turned blue under restoration frosting

1 comment:

J.W.B. said...

Mmm. I have pomegranates every fall. I put the seeds in a dish and cover them with sugar. It's delicious.