BILBERRY

Succulent black pearls cast among frolicking leaves, bilberries bewitch and bedazzle. Stalks spring forth their fruit — splashes of wine-like-shine — jostling and preening into the sun. Delicate, lissom, dappled with zest, Bilberry evokes a verdant harvest, a featherbed strewn with starbursts and light. Shuddering and rippling, hide-and-seeking, the foliage plays its joyful August game as — there! — mellow, luscious, wild-dusted — the perfect berry is caught between finger and thumb.