MORNING SONG

Absent from apple-picking

clarion's clear, discarded
notes upon the better ear

not having
seen th'freshest of th'Spring

surmount th'valley O
with April wing

Absent
from apple-picking: Laughter's row

of strong-backed Visions
which old pleasures sow heartbeats

of half-prophetic Consequences

set off Birth! of old dawn's
sweet eloquences

in O, rhythmic
apple-picking: Song

deep joy

at having thus overcome
Night's seldom Sleep

from apple-picking
at The Edge of a tired draught of

living
& half-drunk

at having found Life

spilling full-fledged all
over the scattered dryness &

all th'other junk