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
- Ribblesdale poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Важнейший совет домашней хозяйке
- In A Railroad Station by Sara Teasdale
- Алишер Навои – Не в камфарной ли одежде этот кипарис прямой
- Burns’s Statue At Irvine poem – Alfred Austin
- Autumnal Sonnet by William Allingham
- Flute Notes From A Reedy Pond by Sylvia Plath
- Shema by Primo Levi
- Epigram—The Keekin Glass by Robert Burns
- Николай Гумилев – Никогда не сделаю я так
- The Elphin Nourrice poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Сказка о Пете, толстом ребенке, и о Симе, который тонкий
- The Queen’s Complaint by Sylvia Plath
- “‘Tis because, though in dusky bower” poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: Up In The Morning Early:
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).
