Apples and Pears by Guy Davenport

Author:Guy Davenport
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504019620
Publisher: Open Road Media

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1 FRUCTIDOR

A basket of summer fruit.

Amos, He said, what do you see?

And I said, a basket of summer fruit.

Then de Heer said to me, the end is come upon my people.

I will not again pass by them this way anymore.

It sits rich and fragrant on altars and sills, this harvest hamper of mellow apples and speckled pears, red pomegranates, fat blue figs, clumps of olives and clusters of grapes on a bedding of emmer and spelt, the round white moon of Elul promising the rains of Tishri. Here, green and yellow in wicker, was earth’s plenty for table and manger and granary, bounty and blessing which nevertheless the wind spoke of to Amos the shepherd and dresser of sycamores midway the 208 furlongs from Hevron to Yerushlim as the sign of the end of all.

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