Tuesday, January 06, 2009

 

Taking Affliction In

Richard Wilbur, Orchard Trees, January:
It's not the case, though some might wish it so
Who from a window watch the blizzard blow

White riot through their branches vague and stark,
That they keep snug beneath their pelted bark.

They take affliction in until it jells
To crystal ice between their frozen cells,

And each of them is inwardly a vault
Of jewels rigorous and free of fault,

Unglimpsed until in May it gently bears
A sudden crop of green-pronged solitaires.
Ansel Adams, Snow in Apple Orchard, Yosemite, California



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