Two staring at an apple,
one sees just fruit,
            the other, dessert.
While one sees the chrome-like skin,
            the other sees the core.
One ponders the seeds, the other,
the future tree. So then . . .

one may imagine
            the orchard where it hung
by umbilical stem,
the other envisions the produce section
where grease-print fingers test-pinch its girth.
One then thinks of autumn's yield,
            the other will recall the fall.

While, through the frosted-pane can be seen,
            by these two staring at an apple,
the blunt column of sun. One then can notice
the reflected, bulb-like light upon
            the glossy surface; the other,
watches the slow shadow drape the table.

Two individuals
            staring at an apple
can likely assume the apple's wax
or plastic, alive/inanimate; or
idea in form and form in thought as
death in life is life in death, or . . .
One of the two individuals will vanish
            and take the apple.