Rebel Girl's Poetry Corner: "sweet impossible blossom"

Rebel Girl has returned from her sojourn up north and she is trying to get back into, as they say, the swing of things. Her summer was full of so many things: people, their words, water, fire, fish, stars, the death of a little boy, her friend's son, whose family and friends are remembering him by placing flowers in the seats of swings. Thanks to Chunk for holding the fort.

Here's a start.

A poem by Li-Young Lee, about peaches, about summer, about hope, which she and so many need. Eat a peach. It helps.

From Blossoms

From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward
signs painted Peaches.


From laden boughs, from hands,
from sweet fellowship in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,
comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.


O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade,
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into
the round jubilance of peach.


There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.