So yesterday I was at a thrift store and searched around, then found myself in the used book section. With as much I have to read for school already, I still couldn't stop myself from buying a book - and at a great, great price I may add. lol
"Vegetable Destiny"
Foolish impatient apricot trees,
gave off flowers in too great a hurry.
Look at them, as in years past,
wind-frozen, thin and vain,
on the branches, with transparent blood
I don't know how to staunch -
for the frost, cruel though it seems,
pays no heed to apricots.
The other trees, far-sighted,
await the floral hour quietly,
with dutiful branches and closed buds,
oblivious to apricot-tree death.
-Nina Cassian
(translated from Romanian by Michael Impey and Brian Swann)
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