'More than the fruit'

“Eat it; and you will taste more than the fruit:

The blossom, too,

The sun, the air, the darkness at the root,

The rain, the dew….’’

—From “The Crossed Apple,’’ by Louise Bogan (1897-1970). She was a native of Livermore Falls, Maine, where her father was a mill worker. She served as U.S. poet laureate.

1909 postcard