library day

Here is a beautiful poem I just read in The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food & Drink...

Fall  

by Wendell Berry

The wild cherries ripen, black and fat,

Paradisal fruits that taste of no man's sweat.

Reach up, pull down the laden branch, and eat;

When you have learned their bitterness, they taste sweet.

This poem is new to me and I just love it - short, simple, wonderful.