3.28.2023

bounty of work from the brain and the heart

Apples and honey for the new year 
but you are my year round sweet 
apple. The apple of my eye, apple 
of temptation and delight. My honey: 
 
our lives together are full of work, 
harvest from dirt and sweat, bounty 
of work from the brain and the heart, 
we're each other's wages and prize: 
 
the seeds in every apple, the flower 
and the pollen and the nectar 
and the final ultimate honey 
our bodies make and surrender. 
 
I was never truly happy before you.
I was never truly whole before you. 
 
[Marge Piercy {1936- } 'May the new year continue our joy', from Made in Detroit]

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