Day 6 - napowrimo - Cold Watermelon

I used today's prompt on napowrimo.net . Today’s prompt (optional, as always) veers slightly away from our ekphrastic theme. To get started, pick a number between 1 and 10. Got your number? Okay! Now scroll down until you come to a chart. Find the row with your number. Then, write a poem describing the taste of the item in Column A, using the words that appear in that row in Column B and C. For bonus points, give your poem the title of the word that appears in Column A for your row, but don’t use that word in the poem itself.

Cold Watermelon

Of course the watermelon was chilled

In the fridge, seedless as seedless

Can be. I cut the cubes into smaller

Cubes. I picked out the seedless seeds.

Forgive me, I am a mother. I didn’t buy

The whole watermelon. Forgive me,

I bought the cubes inside a container

Forgive me, but I am not a bad mother.

I am a mother with many hours mocking

me in worry, but I bought her watermelon

And she eats it all and that fills me

More than any food ever will.

Sarah Miriam Peale, Still Life With Watermelon. Courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum. (Top) Sarah Miriam Peale, Watermelon. Courtesy of Christie's Images Limited.