Monday, June 25, 2007

Seeing the Stars in a Banana

I had a banana that had spots that sort of looked like the night sky. The spots looked like a random arrangement of stars. They were dense and clustered. They were all shapes and sizes. Larger ones that looked like planets and moons. Surrounded by an endless assortment of smaller ones that filled the peel with a comforting banana light. If you looked hard enough you could even pick out constellations and patterns. I was mesmerized for several minutes, imagining I was flying through the stars.

Then I peeled back the yellow heavens and ate the banana within.