QUIET HESITATION BEFORE PICKING FRUIT • by Joel Wool

Tenderness. In anticipation of what murder.
Twig-splitter, sunder of branch burdens.

Theft of nectar.
 

Joel Wool drubs the pulp out of words. He has been recently published in The Emerson Review and Gangsters in Concrete.

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Posted on September 7, 2009 in Literary
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2 Responses to “QUIET HESITATION BEFORE PICKING FRUIT • by Joel Wool”


  1. Oonah V Joslin Says:
    September 8th, 2009 at 2:54 am

    What I loved about this and still do was the contrast between sweet and the bitterness of violence. The first line introduces that really well. We don’t tend to think of the harvest as murder yet images such as the Grim Reaper are familiar to us and that roots (forgive the pun) this poem in deeper tradition.

    I loved the alliterative qualities and how those reflected the theme soft ‘s’s and hard ‘t’s and the plosive sounds of ‘branch burdens’ as if bursting with fruit.

    The last line reprises the thought of the first – but more succinctly.

    I made blackberry jam last week…carnage!

    Loved this poem. Thank you Joel.

  2. Jeff Balter Says:
    September 13th, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    “Theft of nectar.” is a beautiful sound.

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