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- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © Berea College
- ISSN
- 2692-9244
- eISSN
- 2692-9287
Abstract
Night Rain, and: Faith in Apple Trees, and: Something of the Night Diane Meteyard Appalachian Heritage, Volume 19, Number 3, Summer 1991, pp. 12-13 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1991.0062 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438623/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:51 GMT from JHU Libraries Three Poems Night Rain I use shards of light to cut through the night rain. I find you weeping and huddled beside the trunk of an oak tree. I have come I have found you dry your tears. Faith in Apple Trees I grow older and larger, and learn to mistrust many things. But I still have faith in the limbs of an apple tree; no matter what my size their slender boughs arc into beams beneath my feet. I climb upward and inward to the tree's crown bending down a twig I peer out over my small kingdom ... I am lord of many apples. I am pleased. 12 Diane Meteyard Something of the Night Something of the night misplaced long ago reawakened inside the old oak. Young sapling buried in the center of the rings had its limbs still bending in the breeze. A
Journal
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 8, 2014