New Collected Poems by Wendell Berry

Author:Wendell Berry
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619020474
Publisher: Counterpoint Press

THE CLEAR DAYS

for Allen Tate

The dogs of indecision

Cross and cross the field of vision.

A cloud, a buzzing fly

Distract the lover’s eye.

Until the heart has found

Its native piece of ground

The day withholds its light,

The eye must stray unlit.

The ground’s the body’s bride,

Who will not be denied.

Not until all is given

Comes the thought of heaven.

When the mind’s an empty room

The clear days come.

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I tell my love in rhyme

In a sentence that must end,

A measurable dividend,

To hold her time against time.

I praise her honest eyes

That keep their beauty clear.

I have nothing to fear

From her, though the world lies,

If I don’t lie. Though the hill

Of winter rise, a silent ark,

Our covenant with the dark,

We will speak on until

The flowers fall, and the birds

With their bright songs depart.

Then we will go without art,

Without measure, or words.

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