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Can someone write a 5-8 sentence summary on "From Blossoms"?

From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward
signs painted Peaches.

From laden
boughs,
from hands,
from sweet fellowship
in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,
comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.

O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade,
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into
the round jubilance
of peach.

There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

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The poem “From Blossoms” is about summertime. The peaches being eaten in the poem symbolizes how sweet their time is. “From Blossoms” is also about living in the moment. This is emphasized in the poem when it says, “There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background”. Overall “From Blossoms” is a beautiful poem that makes me want it to be summertime.
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