This is an improv of "In Memoram Paul Celan" by Edward Hirsch. What I loved about this piece was the line "next to the almonds and black cherries" and the way that Hirsch used nature language mixed with some of the personal language regarding the poem itself. In my improv, I wanted to use the line that I mentioned above, but I wanted to use that line to help convey the personal nature, although, Elegies are always personal.
Next to the almonds and black cherries,
an apple reminds me of you and when I wore
the red dress that day, and you were cold.
Too cold to see me, or yourself, but I placed
an apple in the crook of your hand so you’d
have a snack for later. I imagine you’d stow
some seeds in your pockets to bring up to the
other land, where He would pray to us for you,
and our responses never mattered much. But my
apple red dress stuck out, appealed to you and Him
and I walked away with an orchard on your gravestone.
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