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May Swenson - KiwiMay Swenson - Kiwi
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    Fruit without a stone, its shiny     pulp is clear green. Inside, tiny     black microdot seeds. Skin     the color of khakiImagine     a shaggy brown-green pelt     that feels like felt.     It`s oval, full-rounded, kind     of egg-shaped. The rind     comes off in strips     when peeled with the lips.     If ripe, full of juice,     melon-sweet, yet tart as goose-     berry almost. A translucent ring     of seed dots looks something     like a coin-slice of banana. Grown     in the tropics, some stone     fruits, overlarge, are queerly     formed. A slablike pit nearly     fills the mango. I     scrape the fibrous pulp off with my     teeth. That slick round ball     in avocado (fruit without juice) we call     alligator pear:     Plant this seedpit with care     on three toothpicks over a glass     of water. It can come to pass     in time, that you`ll see     an entire avocado tree.     Some fruits have stones, some seeds.     Papaya`s loaded with slimy black beads.     Some seem seedlesslike quince     (that makes your tastebuds wince.)     Persimmon will     be sour, astringent "until     dead ripe," they say. Behind     pomegranate`s leathery rind,     is a sackful of moist rubies. Pear,     cantaloupe, grapefruit, guava keep their     seeds hidden, as do raspberry, strawberry,     pineapple. Plum, peach and cherry     we know as fruits with big     seedstones. And fig?     Its graininess is seed. Hard to believe     is prickly durian. It`s custard     sweetand smells nasty.     But there`s no fruit as tasty,     as odd, or as funny     none     as fresh-off-the-vine New Zea-     land kiwi.
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