Short and sweet – for Magpie Tales

This was the picture prompt from Magpie Tales this week, and as an exercise in brevity, here’s my response. My poem came entirely from the picture, but was given added meaning when I looked on Dictionary.Com to help me with a title and saw that ‘tomato’ is also recorded as slang for an attractive woman. Weird how these things link!

Crimson Nightshade

Downy tendrils
bear bulbous
fruit,
red as partly ripened
rump,
hung with humid
droplet jewels,
savored
by parched
and wanting lips;
juicy
scrumptious
summer fun.