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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RANCH OF THE FAN (TIERRA CLIENTE), by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poet's Biography
First Line: Down on the ranch they brought in honey
Last Line: I have been tasting it ever since.
Subject(s): Honey
First Line: Down on the ranch they brought in honey
Last Line: I have been tasting it ever since.
Subject(s): Honey
Down on the ranch they brought in honey.
Manuel dug it out of a tree.
Jasmine swirled when the honeycomb broke.
The thick drops tasted a little of smoke,
A dusky flavor like oboes chuckling
Low in their throats. A flavor like tea
That comes from a Chinese jar I know,
But there was resonance in it too,
Sweetness inscrutable, mingled quince
And pomegranate blossom . . . The wild bees must
Have come home powdery with the dust
Of tiger orchids; and rosewoods grew
By the canyon river. It seemed to me
That gold dark honey was Mexico.
I have been tasting it ever since.
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