Alice O. Howell   

 

CELEBRATION

 

    Like the first day of creation

    when you lie down by me

    sun and earth may float away

    beyond the apple tree

 

    stars do shine above us

    as when God first spoke

    trembling in the shafting

    of your every stroke

 

    apples all around us

    grown from seed of Eve

    good and evil knowing

    more than we conceive

 

    serpent curled beside us

    smiling in her sleep

    at cries so like the flowers

    that the meadows keep

 

    like the first day of creation

    a flushed and rosy tree

    and fruits may fall on Eden

    when you lie down by me.

                a.o. howell

 

       

                                              

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