On Jaffa Street
The orange spins
from the doorway
startles
the bright pitted sphere
bounces
on smooth dark stone
the puddle jumps
orange turns in on itself
rolls
tracing a narrow wake in the rain
before it can rest
the juice man counters
scoops it up in a loose armed arc.
Laura Davis travels and reads a lot. She currently lives in the Middle East and the people, landscape and stories of the places she visits inspire and shape her writing. @LaDaBel
Note: Jaffa St is a main road in central Jerusalem, named after the port of Jaffa – once a Palestinian town and now largely subsumed into Tel Aviv -which became famous for exporting oranges in the nineteenth century.