Bright Harvest by Grace Noll Crowell - HTML preview

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Here in this high-heaped reedy basket

Is the year’s fruit misted with morning dew.

I offer you freely this purple cluster,

Or the red-cheeked apple I plucked for you.

This summer-flushed peach may be pleasing,

This black-heart cherry, this golden pear—

Fruit that has hung like jeweled pendants

Gathering light from the rain-washed air.