After Another Difficult Week
By Linda Aldrich
In French, pendant means hanging, like pomegranates,
like persimmons, like ideas you keep afloat for poems
that finally find their way to you. Like friends
waning to slivers of moon, then rounding
like the world again, dropping gifts in your lap.
This morning, a pair of bees in my mailbox –
a gold bee pendant from Crete – where she found it
in an alley shop. Two bees holding a drop of honey
between them, an amber bead kept from falling.
Outside my window, the second foot of snow is coming down.
I watched rhododendrons become mounds of white
sadness, like hasty graves. But now this.
How unexpected is summer’s sudden memory.
How easily it buzzes and brims over the morning.
Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry is produced in collaboration with the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. Poem copyright © 2012 Linda Aldrich. Reprinted from“March & Mad Women,” Cherry Grove Collections, 2012, by permission of Linda Aldrich. Questions about submitting to Take Heart may be directed to Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, special consultant to the Maine poet laureate, at [email protected] or 228-8263.
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