Verse
Zebrun, Gary
Gary Zebrun Discovery (for John and Barbara) It happened. That's all we know. One morning hiking up Blue Trail, she said, "Look, the skunk cabbage, a flower's there beneath the stem." With...
...and while I dreamed about our deaths, huge vicissitudes, she noticed a hepatica...
...For a half frozen heart, wondering whether spring were some enormous lie, I was surprised...
...With binoculars, I saw what she had found, the first spring lily, shaded as if already it were tired of the sun...
...I looked: the hepatica, the lily, and our deaths, all one wonder tangled in the leaves...
...Look," she called, "beneath the beech...
...Commonweal: 238...
...Just then the withered leaves of last fall, uncovered by the melted snow, crackled...
...And these dead leaves and lilies on the ground provide, I thought, our metaphors of change...
Vol. 107 • April 1980 • No. 8
