Poetry of Eli Siegel
Candles and Forest
Provide with candles the sunny forest
That now needs them very much.
The pine needles are in desperate need of candles.
The oaks are.
The underbrush is swooning for candles.
Light for each thing in that wide forest!
The sun is helped by the delicate candle.
The light is sharply assisted by the delicate candle.
The flame of the candle is like a new kind of grassblade come to the sunny forest.
From The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known #328 (Aesthetic Realism Foundation)
© 1958, 1979 by Eli Siegel