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Blueberries
Related Poem Content DetailsBY JAMES LASDUNI’m talking to you old man.Listen to me as you step inside this gardento fill a breakfast bowl with blueberriesripened on the bushes I’m planting now,twenty years back from where you’re standing.It’s strictly a long-term project—first yearpull off the blossoms before they open,second year let them flower, watch the beesbobbing in every bonnet,but don’t touch the fruit till year three,and then only sample a handful or two . . .Old man I’m doing this for you!You know what they say about blueberries:blood-cleansing, mood-lifting memory-boosters;every bush a little fountain of youthsparkling with flavonoids, anthocyanin . . .I’ve spent all summer clearing brushsawing locust poles for the frames,digging in mounds of pine needles, bales of peat moss—I thought I’d do it while I still could.You can do something for me in turn:think about the things an old man should;things I’ve shied away from, last things.Care about them only don’t care too(you’ll know better than I do what I meanor what I couldn’t say, but meant).Reconcile, forgive, repent,but don’t go soft on me; keep the faith,our infidels’ implicit vow:“not the hereafter but the here and now . . . ”Weigh your heart against the feather of truthas the Egyptians did, and purge its sin,but for your own sake, not your soul’s.And since the only certaineternity’s the one that stretches backward,look for it here inside this garden:Blueray, Bluecrop, Bluetta, Hardy Blue;little fat droplets of transubstantiate sky,each in its yeast-misted wineskin, chilled in dew.This was your labor, these are the fruits thereof.Fill up your bowl old man and bring them in.
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Related Poem Content DetailsBY JAMES LASDUNI’m talking to you old man.Listen to me as you step inside this gardento fill a breakfast bowl with blueberriesripened on the bushes I’m planting now,twenty years back from where you’re standing.It’s strictly a long-term project—first yearpull off the blossoms before they open,second year let them flower, watch the beesbobbing in every bonnet,but don’t touch the fruit till year three,and then only sample a handful or two . . .Old man I’m doing this for you!You know what they say about blueberries:blood-cleansing, mood-lifting memory-boosters;every bush a little fountain of youthsparkling with flavonoids, anthocyanin . . .I’ve spent all summer clearing brushsawing locust poles for the frames,digging in mounds of pine needles, bales of peat moss—I thought I’d do it while I still could.You can do something for me in turn:think about the things an old man should;things I’ve shied away from, last things.Care about them only don’t care too(you’ll know better than I do what I meanor what I couldn’t say, but meant).Reconcile, forgive, repent,but don’t go soft on me; keep the faith,our infidels’ implicit vow:“not the hereafter but the here and now . . . ”Weigh your heart against the feather of truthas the Egyptians did, and purge its sin,but for your own sake, not your soul’s.And since the only certaineternity’s the one that stretches backward,look for it here inside this garden:Blueray, Bluecrop, Bluetta, Hardy Blue;little fat droplets of transubstantiate sky,each in its yeast-misted wineskin, chilled in dew.This was your labor, these are the fruits thereof.Fill up your bowl old man and bring them in.
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