[lit-ideas] Re: THREE FOR THEE
- From: carol kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:34:49 -0800
Mike,
I really like this poem. It's frankly postmenopausal, in feel.
Carol K., translating from the woman
>
> CHANGE OF SEASONS
>
> In June, my ear against an oak,
> You asked what I was doing.
> "Listening to the sap rise," I said.
> You laughed. I laughed
> We both laughed through that
> whole leaf dancing summer.
>
> In September, I touched you
> and you looked away.
> I heard the leaves die.
>
> --------- Mike Geary (trans.Mike Geary)
>
>
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