Georgi Bargamian: Bruised fruit is sweetest

We laughed when you
announced that you’d eaten the
abandoned bruised pear:
one more food rescue
by a Depression-era kid. But now
I see your kinship with
broken enzymes and the
last fruits to be picked, the
tenderness in your rescue, the
ghost of you slicing
wounded flesh knowing
bruised fruit is sweetest when
eaten uninhibited and alone.



“Bruised fruit is sweetest” originally appeared in Trampoline issue 31.2, February 2026