Friday, October 1, 2010

Food Poem Fridays: Seamus Heaney's DERRY DERRY DOWN


Derry Derry Down by Seamus Heaney


i


The lush

Sunset blush

On a big ripe


Gooseberry:

I scratched my hand

Reaching in


To gather it

Off the bush,

Unforbidden,


In Annie Devlin's

Overgrown

Back garden.


ii


In the storybook

Back kitchen

Of The Lodge


The full of a white

Enamel bucket

Of little pears:


Still life

On the red tiles

Of that floor.


Sleeping beauty

I came on

By the scullion's door.

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