Buckwheat
Buckwheat - meaning Summary
Seasonal Images as Portrait
The poem gathers small, sensual images to portray a woman through natural metaphors. Seasonal motifs—late autumn cricket, summer clocks, winter fireglow—blend with physical details like eyes, a dimple, and a mole. These fragments suggest a lingering, tender impression rather than a narrative: fleeting lights, distant bonfires, hummingbird motion, and buckwheat blossoms cohere into a quiet celebration of memory, beauty, and the mingled passage of seasons within a single presence.
Read Complete AnalysesTHERE was a late autumn cricket, And two smoldering mountain sunsets Under the valley roads of her eyes. There was a late autumn cricket, A hangover of summer song, Scraping a tune Of the late night clocks of summer, In the late winter night fireglow, This in a circle of black velvet at her neck. In pansy eyes a flash, a thin rim of white light, a beach bonfire ten miles across dunes, a speck of a fool star in night's half circle of velvet. In the corner of the left arm a dimple, a mole, a forget-me-not, and it fluttered a hummingbird wing, a blur in the honey-red clover, in the honey-white buckwheat.
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