National Poetry Writing Month 2026, day 25: Winesap

Winesap

The medicinal nature of the winesap opens

Its little black bag for you when you

The nutrition-vampire bite it

And your jingle-bell cells thrill

To a pactin-peppered fusillade

With a “Thank you!!” that has

No thought but a smile

..

Without a dictionary (though we have many)

We can guess that whoever bred the first

Winesap, getting that nutrition-

And taste-thrill, may have likened the sensation

To a hearty slug of red wine

And the juiciness, perhaps escaping

A mouth’s confines, was simultaneously likened

To an abundance of sap escaping a tree trunk;

And apple names are marketing tools anyhow

(One of the least delicious varieties

Is called Delicious!!)

And Winesap is a fine elemental choice

For this eminently crisp, sweet

Juice-abundant

Organic

Confection.

Wow, wouldn’t it be medicinal and good

To have one

Just this minute?