Out of the Blue by Helen Dunmore

Out of the Blue by Helen Dunmore

Author:Helen Dunmore [Helen Dunmore]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780370095
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 2011-09-05T04:00:00+00:00


as jockeys in stained silks gentled

those sweat-dark, shuddering horses

down to the walk.

A mortgage on a pear tree

A pear tree stands in its own maze.

It does not close its blossom all night

but holds out branchfuls of cool

wide-open flowers. Its slim leaves look black

and stir like tongues in the lamp-light.

It was here before the houses were built.

The owner grew wasteland and waited for values to rise.

The builders swerved a boundary sideways

to cup the tree in a garden. When they piled rubble

it was a soft cairn mounting the bole.



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