[lit-ideas] In the wind
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas " <Lit-Ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 13:40:50 -0800
The bending of trees after the wind,
After several years of wind, stretched
The branches across the yard toward
My room, a canopy of shade come
Summer, but on these dark winter days
They sway awaiting winds to come.
What did Emerson mean when he said
Homer was too "historical"? A tree
Like a Cyclops reaching out a dark
Branch to brush its leaves against
My window? I planted it years
Ago and since then it has weathered
Everything. It cannot now be afraid,
But is it urging me not to be?
A trope then for pathos
Suggesting why argument
Can never satisfy nor
Philosophy explain;
The rain splashing
Through these leaves
To leave me speechless.
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