Today’s prompt is by Jeremy Paden, author of ruina montium (Broadstone Books).
Take a fruit, common or uncommon, tell the story of that fruit so that its story is also another story. This can be of love, of hate, of politics. It can be a private or a public story. It can rely on myth or science or both. Stay with the fruit, or some product made from the fruit and spin your poem about it in various ways.
Here is one poor example of my own.
Xocolatl
Tlaloc’s brew, your name is lost in bitter struggle,
bean toasted and offered up as tribute
to Tenochtitlan’s flower warriors.
Quezalcoatl’s gift, dark currency
turned to morning drink, you sit on the tongue
bright like the taste of lost paradise.
Chokol atl, hot liquor mixed with chilies,
draught of gods and of those sent on to meet them
drink offered to Cortés as welcoming cup.