The stem end of a melon
is weblike, form
finding a pattern
that’s thinking itself
a density
a concentration
beginning a line
then casting it out
and moving on from,
an order established,
a gesture complete.
Completion: how
someone at a distance
might see it.
Lia Purpura is the author of “It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful,” which will be published in October. She is Writer in Residence at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
