TIMOTHY
] ALKING of Italy he said I remember the time of wine-making the trampling of the grapes the fruit bruised and sunk the split circle filled with sun and seed spilled out in rich blood springing under mountain rock of bare foot, heel’s thunder breaking a season's fruit. Back ‘home holding an orchard farm down south (slice ; of snow for tea in a mile-wide Fort Rose twilight) I grew my season of war, red bomb fruit ripening strung to a trellis of memory high in my burned head but the ripening fruit is harder to split and bleed under the heart's tread. Will only heaviness of death break the shell and let flow wine? Or will ever knock of blossom, knife of bee’s wing? or new lamb’s foot
trample the fire out bleed wine trom my iron fruit?
J.
F.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 801, 26 November 1954, Page 11
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140TIMOTHY New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 801, 26 November 1954, Page 11
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