A Romance of Apples

It’s unlikely Eve plucked an apple from the Tree of Knowledge since up until the 17th c. the word “apple” was a generic term for all unknown, i.e. foreign, fruit, excluding berries, though it did include nuts.

What fills out heads

Eve disgraced herself when she ate from the Tree despite God clearly saying absolutely not! but even as a child in Catholic school I could not condemn her.

To name out of all paradise the one thing denied her, so Eve would spend those first days walking around with apple apple filling hours in her head- ~from "Original Sin" a poem by Lucia Perillo

How could she think of anything but apples after that?

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