October 01, 2026

Sabbaths, 1998: III

by Wendell Berry 
 
 
Early in the morning, walking
in a garden in Vancouver
three thousand miles from your grave,
the sky dripping, song
sparrows singing in the borders,
I come suddenly upon
a Japanese dogwood, a tree
you loved, bowed down with bloom. 
By what blessedness do I weep? 

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