The Apple Trees at Olema by Robert Hass

Author:Robert Hass
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Sun Under Wood

Now goth sonne under wode—

Me reweth, Marie, thi faire rode.

Now goth sonne under tre—

Me reweth, Marie, thy sonne and thee.

—ANONYMOUS, TWELFTH CENTURY

HAPPINESS

Because yesterday morning from the steamy window

we saw a pair of red foxes across the creek

eating the last windfall apples in the rain—

they looked up at us with their green eyes

long enough to symbolize the wakefulness of living things

and then went back to eating—

and because this morning

when she went into the gazebo with her black pen and yellow pad

to coax an inquisitive soul

from what she thinks of as the reluctance of matter,

I drove into town to drink tea in the café

and write notes in a journal—mist rose from the bay

like the luminous and indefinite aspect of intention,

and a small flock of tundra swans

for the second winter in a row was feeding on new grass

in the soaked fields; they symbolize mystery, I suppose,

they are also called whistling swans, are very white,

and their eyes are black—

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