say you drive out past the light-line
take an orange out of a chest of ice and
place it in The Hidden Valley,
just outside the northwest exit of John Wayne Pass …
drive away
you wait 40 days,
then another 40 days,
then another 40 days and
you have 40 such 40 days and
you return to the spot
where you gentle had
set down the icy orange
you say
“what is left?”
you see
the pit,
split