Sunday, March 27, 2005

a resurrection dream...or so it seems to me

We had a quiet dinner with friends and neighbors in various states of hopeful disrepair this Easter.

The poet Wendell Berry slipped this word in edgewise...

A MEETING
In a dream I meet
my dead friend. He has,
I know, gone long and far,
and yet he is the same
for the dead are changeless.
They grow no older.
It is I who have changed,
grown strange to what I was.
Yet I, the changed one,
ask: "How you been?"
He grins and looks at me.
"I been eating peaches
off some mighty fine trees."


Wendell Berry, Collected Poems, North Point Press, 12th printing, 2000, page 206

1 comment:

Blogging not to voice opinions but finding pleasure in understanding. Prov.18;2 said...

That is why at dinner you always keep your fork because the best is yet to come!