Don Giovanni

I am thinking of a man
	who holds an acorn in his hand
turning it over and over
	testing the smooth shell
sensing the nutmeat first with his fingers

and then
deliberately
with a hammer
cracks it
	just so
so that the center
	falls out.

the nut seen against the polished wood of the table
savored first with the eye
and eaten
easily
so that
	tasting
leaves no memory.