S E P T E M B E R 1 9 8 0 ![]() CONTINUUM: A LOVE POEMby Maxine Kumin | |||||||||||||
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going for grapes with ladder and pail in the first slashing rain of September rain steeping the dust in a joyous squelch the sky standing up like steam from a kettle of grapes at the boil wild fox grapes wickedly high tangled in must of cobweb and bug spit going for grapes year after year we two with ladder and pail stained with the rain of grapes our private language Maxine Kumin won a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for her collection of poems Up Country. Her most recent volumes are Connecting the Dots (1996) and Selected Poems: 1960-1990 (1997). Copyright © 1980 by Maxine Kumin. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; September 1980; Continuum: A Love Poem; Volume 246, No. 3; page 69. |
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