from Garden
II
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.
~~
H.D. (1886-1961)
from Sea Garden, 1916
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]
H.D. biography
II
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.
~~
H.D. (1886-1961)
from Sea Garden, 1916
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]
H.D. biography
"Heat" recited by Zither P. Oxblood. Courtesy Graveyard Poetry.
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