1.04.2007

Poetry Thursday- one for winter

Blue Grapes

Eating blue grapes
near the window
and looking out
at the snow-covered valley.
For a moment, the deep world
gazing back. Then a blue jay
scatters snow from a bough.
No world, no meeting. Only
tremors, sweetness
on the tongue.

-Tess Gallagher

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