There was an apple tree in the yard —
\nthis would have been
\nforty years ago — behind,
\nonly meadows. Drifts
\nof crocus in the damp grass.
\nI stood at that window:
\nlate April. Spring
\nflowers in the neighbor’s yard.
\nHow many times, really, did the tree
\nflower on my birthday,
\nthe exact day, not
\nbefore, not after? Substitution
\nof the immutable
\nfor the shifting, the evolving.
\nSubstitution of the image
\nfor relentless earth. What
\ndo I know of this place,
\nthe role of the tree for decades
\ntaken by a bonsai, voices
\nrising from the tennis courts —
\nFields. Smell of the tall grass, new cut.
\nAs one expects of a lyric poet.
\nWe look at the world once, in childhood.
\nThe rest is memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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