Jeanne Poland's Poetry Blog
19 Apr 2021 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: berry disolves on your tongue, country of sun and silence, discover the long red marks, Lisel Mueller, Picking Raspberries, raspberries, the pain, the thicket opens, you remember nothing of your old life
Picking Raspberries
Once the thicket opens and lets you enter
and the first berry dissolves on your tongue,
you will remember nothing
of your old life.
You can stay
in that country of sun and silence
as long as you like. To return,
you have only to look at your arms
and discover the long, red marks.
You will have invented pain
which has no place there.
Lisel Mueller
in The Need to Hold Still
10 Apr 2021 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: bell tongue, Best Friend Forever, bottle neck, clock face, eye of storm, heart of the country, Lisel Mueller, lonely, mouth of cave, pitcher lip, shoes tongue, table, Things
Things
What happened is, we grew lonely
living among the things,
so we gave the clock a face,
the chair a back,
the table four stout legs
which will never suffer fatigue.
We fitted our shoes with tongues
as smooth as our own
and hung tongues inside bells
so we could listen
to their emotional language,
and because we loved graceful profiles
the pitcher received a lip,
the bottle a long, slender neck.
Even what was beyond us
was recast in our image;
we gave the country a heart,
the storm an eye,
the cave a mouth
so we could pass into safety.
Lisel Mueller
from Alive Together
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