Orchards

Norbert Krapf

Though he kept his own counsel
I was aware as a boy of my father’s

grief over his inability to replicate
a colony of fruit trees like those

that grew in his father’s orchard.
I am no more than mediocre

as a husbandman, but the fruits
of my father’s orchard blossom

in these lines I derive from
his love of earth and leaf.

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