Pamela Silin Palmer The Love Poems of Honniker Winkley

Decorative Artist, Illustrator and Fine Artist

The Love Poems
of Honniker Winkley

Pig Wrath in the Grape Arbor

And the broad fields beneath them turn crimson,
Then howl I my heart nigh mad with rejoicing.

--Ezra Pound

Grape root sucks earth
Swallows fecund juice of rutting swine;
Rapturous tumbles shake the vine
Mid bristling hams
Bunches split and fall.

Angry vintner runs raising slicer
Carves sow fiercely left and right!

Hog snarls nipping knee,
Is also sliced:

Feeds grapes red clots.

Fire over in the summer field
Beneath the beehive and the moon:
Skewered sowleg spitting grease,
Wine-washed lips make eager sucking sounds.

Silent pig heads hung on stars
Fertile grapes ferment explode,
Spreading out upon white linen
The parslied haunch
The protly pear;

In moonlight teeth and pig bone shine.

On to To P.Q.: Memory in the Orchard

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