Recipe for Apple Pie

Recipe for Apple Pie
by David Lee Garrison

hold the paring knife
to your lips---take a peel
with your tongue---squeeze
the redness into your mouth
slice the sunshine---add
the glisten of sugar---bake
until the smell knocks
on the oven door---cinnamon
nutmeg---dough---the flavor of fall
open the oven---open your home
to the wind of an orchard
to that cozy fire
inside you---then eat
the circle---hot and sweet

From "O Taste and See," edited by D.L. Garrison & T. Hermsen