BERRY PICKING ADVICE

Berry picking advice.

Don’t go after a raspberry

like you're hungry -

plucking and grabbing from above

at the first red fruit you see.

You’ll lose it.

It will fall to the bottom of the thicket

and if you reach after it

you may find it, no sweat

but when you pull your arm back

lost in daydreams of glut

is when the thorns set in.

You will learn that you'd rather be hungry.

You should pick berries with a full belly.

Reach in slow -

palm open and up

a question

a soft place to land

and the ripest fruit will fall

right into your ready hand.