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Thank you for the risen stars on the skin of an apple,

which I slice into fine, thin crescents

For dapple is a word derived from apple

and apple once meant any fruit at all

born from a tree: lemon, fig, persimmon

Thank you road apple, finger apple, earth apple

for all that apple was before apple acquired

a stigma for being forbidden—

Marked, dappled, shadowed grappling,

stamped juice, controlled smudging of

what twinkles unthinkably