Monday, August 27, 2012

Tuesday Poem

To Thank You For Blackberries 
                                           --for C.M.

Folded into the slurry
of my daily steel-cut oats,
each mouthful
is a burst of summer,
an August afternoon
sun-sweetened
with violet juices—
plucked and gathered
by the handful,
risking thorn-slash
and sticky webs,
the last of the season
staining my lips.

© T. Clear 2012

(To be honest, I was standing on the sidewalk
struggling to reach the berries growing
from the top of my neighbor's hedge.
I heard her call out "thief!" as she came
around the corner, laughing.
Then she offered me the use of her step-ladder,
thus facilitating all future theft [by me]
of her luscious berries.)

5 comments:

  1. Luckily all of ours are chest hight, and have recently swelled a bit after a brief afternoon of rain. I shall be making my absolute favourite summer conserve; Bramble Jelly.

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  2. Nice - I am enviously looking forward to blackberries - reminds me so much of picking them as a child.

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  3. ah, what a lovely poem, T.

    my niece just made a most delicious peach and blueberry pie -- the best I've ever had, I believe. It's the last of summer, for sure.

    what a good neighbor you have!

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  4. You've captured it beautifully. Spot on! A sensuous poem.

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