[Milton-L] How do you like them apples...?

[Kemmer Anderson]

Out in the orchard these days picking apples in the morning. Today I 
stood and marvelled at the roundness of the summer rambo, a heritage 
apple that finally bloomed after 8 years. Last year we lost the crop 
to the Easter freeze. But today weighing the apple in my palm, 
letting it fill my eye - all the senses invoked from Book 9 suddenly 
made sense. The phenomenon of examining the object. Excuse while in 
my office I take another bite. The other day I wondered about the 
eternity of the season in Eden. Good material for the students to 
munch on when the poem drops on them with new Miltonic wonder.
Different touch to reach for a blueberry or apple, plum or peach than 
reach for a book and look at words. Kemmer


>.>Marvell lives at the farmers market:
> >
> >The nectarine and curious peach
> >Into my hands themselves do reach
>
>
>That's how ourd id these days: peaches, raspberries, blackberries, 
>early apples, eggplant, squash, greens, beets, peppers, melons and 
>all - and the noble tomato!
>
>C
>Cynthia A. Gilliatt
>English Department, JMU, ret.
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>"You have made God in your own image when God hates the same people 
>you hate." Fr. John Weston
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