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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MILLION COTTON BLOSSOMS, by GRACE STILLMAN MINCK
Last Line: Please god, if he would come to comfort me.
Subject(s): Comfort
Last Line: Please god, if he would come to comfort me.
Subject(s): Comfort
A million cotton blossoms dot the sky
Toward the east as though swift fingers spread,
Ecstatically, their fluffiness. -- God I
Knew surely it was false that he was dead ...
My dark-skinned Mose ... You're comforting his soul
With field work, such as he has ever known,
Easing transition. When night's vespers toll,
My heart knows well, You'll greet him there, alone,
At the last turning of the homeward lane
To lessen any strangeness he may know
With, "Mose, it's good to hear your step again." --
O God, don't leave him for he needs You so!
But -- should an angel wish new duties, see,
Please God, if he would come to comfort me.
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