Pear

in ‘fruit in a chinese bowl’

   hockney’s pear is flat green

   easily mistaken for an avocado

 

to eat a pear for free

   knowing it tastes three million

   english pounds is our own business

 

banksy has a pair of nostrils

   for detecting things on the nose

   but is not known for painting pears

 

while arcimboldo’s noisy fruttivendolo

   has a pear for a nose

   and a face we could munch for lunch

 

and nothing much touches

   the most famous pears of cézanne

   square there teasing our primal instincts

 

 

i.m. David Hockney 11th of June 2026