Celebration

For expressing joy in the immediate a poem is a perfect vehicle.  No matter the isolation, the hardship, the loss. such occasions occur.  in his poem "Blackberry Eating," Galway Kinnell (1927-2014) expresses his encounter with blackberries.  He writes that the blackberries he has picked in late September at breakfast "fall almost unbidden"  to his "tongue/ as words sometimes do...

                     which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well
                     in the silent, startled, icy, black language
                     of blackberry eating in late September.

                     Copyright 1980 by Galway Kinnell.  From  MORTAL ACTS, MORTAL WORDS (Mariner Books, 1980).