David Wright's most recent poetry collection is Local Talent (Purple Flag/Virtual Artists Collective, 2019). Over the years, his poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Image, Spoon River Poetry Review, and
–after Thomas Hart Benton’s “Apples of Discord” (1949)
Look, it was the only October apple left in the orchard,
depression falling down around us like steady leaves.
I counted Adam’s visible