<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Eve Remembering</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">1</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">I tore from a limb fruit that had lost its green.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">My hands were warmed by the heat of an apple</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Fire red and humming.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">I bit sweet power to the core.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">How can I say what it was like?</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">The taste! The taste undid my eyes</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">And led me far from the gardens planted for a child</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">To wildernesses deeper than any master’s call.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">2</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Now these cool hands guide what they once caressed;</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Lips forget what they have kissed.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">My eyes now pool their light</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Better the summit to see.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">3</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">I would do it all over again:</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Be the harbor and set the sail,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Loose the breeze and harness the gale,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Cherish the harvest of what I have been.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Better the summit to scale.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Better the summit to be.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"><br></span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Toni Morrison</span></div></div></body></html>