Sunday, April 18, 2010

Daily Dose

From Yvor Winters: Selected Poems, edited by Thom Gunn

THE ORANGE TREE

"Hard, oily,
sinous,
your trunk,

black serpent,
struggling
with your weight of gold --

great strength
massed
against Time,

in angry pride
you hold out
lacquered life

the classic leaf."

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