Hilda Doolittle (Хильда Дулитл)

Heat


O wind, rend open the heat,
cut apart the heat,
rend it to tatters.

Fruit cannot drop
through this thick air--
fruit cannot fall into heat
that presses up and blunts
the points of pears
and rounds the grapes.

Cut the heat--
plough through it,
turning it on either side
of your path.

Hilda Doolittle’s other poems:

  1. Holy Satyr
  2. The Pool
  3. From Citron-Bower
  4. The Mysteries Remain
  5. Cities




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