Surely one of my favorite poets is the American poet Galway Kinnell. One of my favorte poems is called BlackBerry Eating.
Blackberry Eating
I love to go out in late September
among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries
to eat blackberries for breakfast,
the stalks very prickly, a penalty
they earn for knowing the black art
of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them
lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries
fall almost unbidden to my tongue,
as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words
like strengths or squinched,
many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps,
which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well
in the silent, startled, icy, black language
of blackberry — eating in late September.
Galway Kinnell
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so listen i have to do this poem thingie in english class and i was wondering if you knew anything else about this poem that i might be able to use for help.ok thankyou
~*~christina ortiz
Now that would be cheating.
Im with them on this. lol. Im doin somethin in english and need like 700-900 words bout this poem too.