Still Life Valentine

A painted Mexican bowl
holding one Asian pear
a red American apple and
a pomegranate of so distant
an origin it had never had
a nationality unless you mean
Paradise pre-Big Bang
aka ‘the spiritual world’
but at first I didn’t notice
the different nationalities
at first it was the explosion
of color in a dark corner
of the room as their forms
and names returned to them
with justified pride and sadness
from prior civilizations
prior creations
when I could stare at them forever
as I did