Tuesday Poem

O Taste and See

The world is
not with us enough.
O taste and see

the subway Bible poster said,
meaning the Lord, meaning
if anything all that lives
to the imagination’s tongue,

grief, mercy, language,
tangerine, weather, to
breathe them, bite,
savor, chew, swallow, transform
into our flesh our
deaths, crossing the street, plum, quince,
living in the orchard and being

hungry, and plucking
the fruit.

Denise Levertov
from
Literature and the Writing Process
Prentice Hall, 1996