All afternoon cutting bramble blackberries off a tottering
brown fence
under a low branch with its rotten old apricots miscellaneous
under the leaves,
fixing the drip in the intricate gut machinery of a new toilet;
found a good coffeepot in the vines of the porch, rolled a
big tire out of the scarlet bushes, hid my marijuana;
wet the flowers, playing the sunlit water each to each,
retuning the godly extra drops for the stringbeans and daisies;
three times walked around the grass and sighed absently;
my reward, when the garden fed me its plums from the
form of a small tree in the corner,
am angel thoughtful of my stomach, and my dry and lovelorn
tongue
1956