The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda). Luis Meléndez (Spanish, Naples 1716–1780 Madrid). ca. 1772. Oil on canvas. 41 1/2 x 60 1/2 in. (105.4 x 153.7 cm). Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art open access.
Seed
No more than the one
in the web, that world
inside the autumn squash,
senses the world outside
firm flesh, thick-slick skin,
tangled green umbilical cord,
soil from which it feeds,
grows, sun from which it draws,
swells, air it dwells in,
water-life from bulging clouds.
Does it know? That sky,
atmosphere, beyond, the possibility
within, ever-expanding.
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