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When the Ripe Fruit Falls

BY: D.H. Lawrence

Reprinted with permission from "The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence," Viking Penguin Books.


When the ripe fruit falls


its sweetness distills and trickles away


into the veins of the earth.

When fulfilled people die


the essential oil of their experience enters


the veins of living space, and adds a glisten


to the atom, to the body of immortal chaos.

For space is alive


and it stirs like a swan


whose feathers glisten


silky with the oil of distilled experience.

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