Freshly picked ripe peaches, pear blossoms, peach wood, orris root, and musk mallow.
Deep in the soft, sweet-smelling fresh
Body of fruit a seed, a pit
Eternal in the delicate flesh
That cradles it.
—Marjorie Allen Seiffert, A Stone is Hidden in the Peach
Art: Three Peaches on a Stone Ledge with a Painted Lady Butterfly by Adriaen Coorte, circ. 1695
Freshly picked ripe peaches, pear blossoms, peach wood, orris root, and musk mallow.
Deep in the soft, sweet-smelling fresh
Body of fruit a seed, a pit
Eternal in the delicate flesh
That cradles it.
—Marjorie Allen Seiffert, A Stone is Hidden in the Peach
Art: Three Peaches on a Stone Ledge with a Painted Lady Butterfly by Adriaen Coorte, circ. 1695