THAT WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS MOMENT

apoplectic God
furiously reads note
attached to branch in place of apple

“This is just to say
we have eaten of the fruit
in the middle of the garden

and which you
told us not to
forgive us it was so

sweet
and deliciously
Knowledgeable.”

so much depended upon
that rain glazed
red apple

they stand wailing
and gnashing
their teeth

beside the bitten
red apple
with the white teeth marks