Tathagata
Lazarus Monkey
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Tristesse said:Do you remember how it was?
The three of us, too short to reach
so we stood
on that up-turned bucket
to reach the lowest branch
and scrambled, monkey-like
the rest of the way.
Oh! Those sun-warmed cherries
coming in twos and threes to a stem.
"Look! I have earings."
Peering through the foliage
giggling silly.
Spitting fleshless pits and
hitting the target
all of a foot away.
Afterwards. back home
- red-lipped and sticky,
we discussed, soto voce,
how to explain the red splotched
white T-shirts.