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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONTRA MORTEM: THE SUMMER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poet's Biography
First Line: Cicadas blur the ear as the blue heat haze
Last Line: Uniting all this knowledge with the earth
Subject(s): Summer
First Line: Cicadas blur the ear as the blue heat haze
Last Line: Uniting all this knowledge with the earth
Subject(s): Summer
Cicadas blur the ear as the blue heat haze
blurs the eye Fulfillment is a word
known to be lucky and hence not nice
or perhaps a shade absurd
Wise folk avoid it though they may speak of days
of changing tension Softly the hayfields rise
in the seedtime's changing browns and rusts
to the green mountain where the farthest crests
blur in purple boundaries like the child's
outreaching perceptions
and fall back in media gloria like the folds
of the woman's experience The redwings
the meadowlarks the treeswallows zoom in the warmth
small and sudden pleasant interconnections
uniting all this knowledge with the earth.
Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA
98368-0271, www.cc.press.org
Other Poems of Interest...
THE ADVANCE OF SUMMER by MARY KINZIE
THE SUMMER IMAGE by LEONIE ADAMS
CANOEBIAL BLISS by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY
THE END OF SUMMER by HENRY MEADE BLAND
THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD
SONNET: 14. APPROACH OF SUMMER by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES
JULY IN WASHINGTON by ROBERT LOWELL
ODE TO THE END OF SUMMER by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY
I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A REAL HARD TIME BEFORE' by HAYDEN CARRUTH