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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THIS CHILD, by ALICE MONKS MEARS
First Line: Under her heart's tree recently sprung
Last Line: In the shade of a circle intangible, inviolate.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: Under her heart's tree recently sprung
Last Line: In the shade of a circle intangible, inviolate.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
Under her heart's tree recently sprung
of invisible shade, she sits cracking nuts:
burred, knobby, smooth, spicy, bitter, she pries.
With quick squirrel hands she holes away
some chosen; impossible cleverness to betray
which kernels she hid, which tasted, which ate.
Her talk suffices itself, rustles, flies,
trills, curves inward, narrowly cuts
the air to flutter above the small sitter
in the shade of a circle intangible, inviolate.
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