Roses Are Red, Bananas Are Yellow

Fruit and Flowers

The afternoon sun dances across the metal sink as it bursts through the white trimmed window. A curved glass vase sits perched upon the window sill. Nine candy-red roses soak their feet in day old tap water. Their pale green stalks cut short on crooked angles three days prior. Dew collects on the interior of the crystal vase and casting beams of shimmering light around the kitchenette. Upon closer observation, the delicate silk petals are flecked with off-white and pastel yellow markings. The traditional romantic flower symbolizes the fresh and everlasting passion between the two occupants of the modern apartment. Contained in a silver basin to the left of the picture-perfect roses, a variety of fruit lay waiting to be chosen as a mid-day snack. From delectable bananas to mouth-watering apples to succulent oranges. The taxi-yellow bananas are ripe with hints of lime green resting on ridges that run the length of the fruit. The Macintosh apples gleam bright red, dripping with flavor. Fluorescent green patterns marking the peaks of them. The sporadic glimpses of the over-sized oranges reveal days in age, faint tan creases scar the tangerine-oranges' hide. Despite the slight aging, the oranges pop out as the fruit of choice, victim to the next consumer who enters the scene.

Craving fresh sliced oranges,
~Chiko.