A Time of Bees by Mona Van Duyn

Author:Mona Van Duyn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1964-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM

STANDING in the kitchen, ready to rip open the tinfoil,

I paused to appreciate how abstraction flatters my will,

how efficiently it takes out of time the qualities I can use

and rejects the others. Assuming onion soup as my purpose,

the onions in my cupboard, which used to be, so to speak, real,

insisted on their whole nature, were never so sweetly under control—

they were always inconveniently rotting or trying to bloom

or spraying my eyes with perverse misdirection of their perfume,

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