The Sand Hill Review               http://www.sandhillreview.org 2011

Fate is a Pear

Fate is a pear

a ship of citron and chartreuse

sailing across a sea of white cloth

casting a blue shadow.

A man is fated to sketch the pear.

Like all fates, this one has come

from what he has chosen and what

a thousand histories have thrust on him.

Because Adam was driven from the Garden,

the man reaches for the brush.

Because he has free will,

he dips it in vermillion.

Nils Peterson