XI

 

Scallops of yellow,
sublimed from green,
As though they were soft mines of earth.

The ripeness, so possible in green!
Impossible in goldenness,
in its gymnasiums toward rot:

The olive, crushed for the oil
The oil, spread thin for the light
And the light, lensed for the glow.

One forgets,
that all will end by the black grass.