Heat
1886-1961
O wind, rend open the heat,
Cut apart the heat,
Rend it to tatters.
Fruit cannot drop
Through this thick air --
Fruit cannot fall into heat
That presses up and blunts
The points of pears
And rounds the grapes.
Cut the heat --
Plough through it,
Turning it on either side
Of your path.
DayPoems Poem No. 1407
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1407.html">Heat by Hilda "H.D." Doolittle</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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