Tasty Pear

by Allan Lake

She takes comfort
in ‘the meaning’
whereas I delight
in meaninglessness.
Neither of us grasps
whatever math is
involved but both
get amorous as we
grasp each other,
involve ourselves
adding one to one.

BIO: Allan Lake, originally from Saskatoon, Canada, has lived in Vancouver, Cape Breton Island, Ibiza, Tasmania, Western Australia and Melbourne. His latest chapbook of poems, My Photos of Sicily, was published by Ginninderra Press. Such journals as The Hong Kong Review, Quadrant Magazine, The American Writers Review, Tokyo Poetry Journal, The Antigonish Review, New Philosopher, and The Fabians Review have published his poems.