Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PATCHWORK, by GLADYS VERVILLE DEANE


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PATCHWORK, by                    
First Line: Into that deep that yields no bright return
Last Line: While I sewed seams beneath the apple tree.
Subject(s): Apples; Dreams; Fruit; Youth; Nightmares


Into that deep that yields no bright return
You took youth's glory. Old wives paint your form,
Your hair, your household arts, but I must learn
To count your passions by my own heart's storm.
The child mind clings to such a meagre part
Of being; yet the senses often lay
Their loves for rousing. Thus, when apples start
Their rounding and their greening, nostrils say
It's time for patchwork in the apple shade.
And then the purple-spattered pansies gleam
Like patches I so carefully arrayed
In rows, while you watched, mindful of the seam.

Ah, yes, when dreams rise up to russet scent
I wonder if you stitched their plan in me
With threadings from your own muted intent --
While I sewed seams beneath the apple tree.





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