The poet and novelist Marge Piercy has a gift for writing about nature. In this poem, springtime has a nearly overwhelming and contagious energy, capturing the action-filled drama of spring.
More Than Enough
The first lily of June opens its red mouth.
All over the sand road where we walk
multiflora rose climbs trees cascading
white or pink blossoms, simple, intense
the scene drifting like colored mist.
The arrowhead is spreading its creamy
clumps of flower and the blackberries
are blooming in the thickets. Season of
joy for the bee. The green will never
again be so green, so purely and lushly
new, grass lifting its wheaty seedheads
into the wind. Rich fresh wine
of June, we stagger into you smeared
with pollen, overcome as the turtle
laying her eggs in roadside sand.
Marge Piercy's latest book of poetry is "Colors Passing Through Us" (Knopf, 2003); her new novel "Sex Wars" (Morrow/Harper Collins) will be out in December. Poem copyright 2003 by Marge Piercy and reprinted from The Paterson Literary Review with permission of the author. This weekly column is supported by The Poetry Foundation, The Library of Congress, and the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. This column does not accept unsolicited poetry.
Also at Virtual Grub Street by/about Ted Kooser:
- American Gothic (a review of Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser. Copper Canyon Press, 2004);
- Ted Kooser and the American Life in Poetry column;
- American Life in Poetry #1: David Allan Evans;
- American Life in Poetry #2: Jonathan Greene;
- American Life in Poetry #3: Marnie Walsh;
- American Life in Poetry #4: Ruth Stone;
- American Life in Poetry #5: David Baker;
- American Life in Poetry #6: Barton Sutter;
- American Life in Poetry #7: Leonard Nathan;
- American Life in Poetry #8: Karma Larsen;
- American Life in Poetry #9: James Doyle;
- American Life in Poetry #11: David Wagoner;
- American Life in Poetry #12: Andrei Guruianu;
- American Life in Poetry #13: Kevin Griffith;
- American Life in Poetry #14: Georgiana Cohen;
- American Life in Poetry #15: Janet McCann;
- American Life in Poetry #16: Lisel Mueller;
- American Life in Poetry #17: Wendell Berry;
- American Life in Poetry #18: Dan Gerber;
- American Life in Poetry #19: Shirley Buettner;
- American Life in Poetry #20: Jane Hirshfield;
- American Life in Poetry #21: Karin Gottshall;
- American Life in Poetry #22: Jean L. Connor;
- American Life in Poetry #23: E. G. Burrows;
- American Life in Poetry #24: Martin Walls;
- American Life in Poetry #25: Rodney Torreson;
- American Life in Poetry #26: Claudia Emerson;
- American Life in Poetry #27: Angela Shaw.
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