still life

I rotate the pear one quarter turn to the right, its blushing belly exposed to the pomegranate directly adjacent to it. The blazing fruit of passion sits unabashedly aside its paler, more timid counterpart, turned a quarter counter-clockwise in the tall glass vase atop the table. No one notices, but that quarter turn makes all the difference because now, not only does the pear-yellow harmonize with the red of the pomegranate, but the pear's rosy belly now blurs the fruit's colors together creating a yellow to orange to red gradient; both a study in color and one in line and shape and texture. I take another pear out of the bag and place it in the vase of pomegranates, flush-side up.