by French Impressionist Camille Pissarro, 1830 - 1903
We'll go on as always harvesting walnuts
on our hands and knees,
and die voicelessly
as a sedan full of cigar smoke
sinking under a bridge.
We'll turn slowly, flowers
in the mouths of drowned cattle
In a dawn of burned fields,
the sun disappoints you,
and the blight you begin to remember
is me.
Like an Alp overlooking a corpse
I explain nothing.
Larry Levis, 1946 - 1996
Award - winning American professor and poet
by Robert Frost and Larry Levis
see my recent post Apples, Leaves, Walnuts
on The Fortnightly Kitti Carriker
A Fortnightly [every 14th & 28th] Literary Blog of
Connection & Coincidence; Custom & Ceremony
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