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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

After Apple-Picking



After Apple-Picking

Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963


My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree

Toward heaven still,

And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill

Beside it, and there may be two or three

Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough.

But I am done with apple-picking now.

Essence of winter sleep is on the night,

The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.

I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight

I got from looking through a pane of glass

I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough

And held against the world of hoary grass.

It melted, and I let it fall and break.

But I was well

Upon my way to sleep before it fell,

And I could tell

What form my dreaming was about to take.

Magnified apples appear and disappear,

Stem end and blossom end,

And every fleck of russet showing clear.

My instep arch not only keeps the ache,

It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.

I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.

And I keep hearing from the cellar bin

The rumbling sound

Of load on load of apples coming in.

For I have had too much

Of apple-picking: I am overtired

Of the great harvest I myself desired.

There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,

Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall.

For all

That struck the earth,

No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,

Went surely to the cider-apple heap

As of no worth.

One can see what will trouble

This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.

Were he not gone,

The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his

Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,

Or just some human sleep.

2 comments:

  1. OMG!

    I'd love to bite on those «apples».... LOL !

    I viewed the new Star Trek yesterday evening.
    OMG! This is such a huge beginning and I'm eager to see more.

    The Klingon «make over» is quite well done and not to forget the super special effects.

    But most of all, they've kept the soul of what is Star Trek philosophy.

    The only negative for me is the «before» interviews on Innerspace that was annoying and too long. It was almost irrelevant because we've seen so much of the making of and the cast before the premier.

    Live long and prosper.

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  2. Isn't there a game to play by putting an apple in the crack of his ass and removing it with your mouth. after the apple is out well all is possible. I would do that for this dude. get your Vitamin C, Fiber and daily allotment of ASS! I think that is a good deal! Denis

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