With index finger and thumb
I break off the green grape.
My tongue reaches for it,
then my teeth.
Its skin is smooth.
Its flesh engorged with water.
Its sweetness a touch of summer
like a narrow waterfall
splashing in the sun.

Margaret Coombs is a retired academic librarian who lives in Manitowoc. Some of her recent publications can be found in Verse-Virtual, Barstow & Grand, and Silver Birch Review. Her first chapbook The Joy of Their Holiness was published under the name Peggy Turnbull.