His clumsy body is a golden fruit
pendulous in the pear tree
Blunt fingers among the multitudinous buds
Adriatic blue the sky above and through
the forking twigs
Sun ruddying tree’s trunk, his trunk
his massive head thick-knobbed with burnished curls
tight-clenched in bud
(Painting by Generalic. Primitive.)
I watch him prune with silent secateurs
Boots in the crotch of branches shift their weight
heavily as oxen in a stall
Hear small inarticulate mews from his locked mouth
a kitten in a box
Pear clippings fall
soundlessly on the ground
Spring finches sing
soundlessly in the leaves
A stone. A stone in ears and on his tongue
Through palm and fingertip he knows the tree’s
quick springtime pulse
Smells in its sap the sweet incipient pears
Pale sunlight’s choppy water glistens on
his mutely snipping blades
and flags and scraps of blue
above him make regatta of the day
But when he sees his wife’s foreshortened shape
sudden and silent in the grass below
uptilt its face to him
then air is kisses, kisses
stone dissolves
his locked throat finds a little door
and through it feathered joy
flies screaming like a jay.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Reverie Ofmahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Barnfloor and Winepress poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- A Poet’s Eightieth Birthday poem – Alfred Austin
- Ribbons & Pearls by Timothy Cole
- Илья Эренбург – Я бы мог прожить совсем иначе
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сыт я по горло, до подбородка
- The Cap And Bells by William Butler Yeats
- Angel Of Better Days To Come
- Gyrations by Satish Verma
- Гавриил Державин – Желание в горняя
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- A Superscription On Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Sent For A Token by William Strode
- Tithonus
- Robert Burns: On Being Shewn A Beautiful Country Seat : Belonging to the same Laird [not quite so wise as Solomon].
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
