Monday, 25 May 2009

• O Taste and See

  O Taste and See by Denise Levertov

  The world is
  not with us enough.
  O taste and see

  the subway Bible poster said,
  meaning The Lord, meaning
  if anything all that lives
  to the imagination's tongue,

  grief, mercy, language
  tangerine, weather, to
  breathe them, bite,
  savor, chew, swallow, transform

  into our flesh our
  deaths, crossing the street, plum, quince,
  living in the orchard and being

  hungry, and plucking
  the fruit.

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