not a pretty picture. not a good. not a bad. picture. but an argument.

Thursday, October 29, 2015

decay and flight


All Hallows by Louise Glück


Even now this landscape is assembling.
The hills darken. The oxen
sleep in their blue yoke,
the fields having been
picked clean, the sheaves
bound evenly and piled at the roadside
among cinquefoil, as the toothed moon rises:


This is the barrenness
of harvest or pestilence.
And the wife leaning out the window
with her hand extended, as in payment,
and the seeds
distinct, gold, calling
Come here

Come here, little one


And the soul creeps out of the tree.