the deepening ground

If you haven’t read yesterday’s post, you won’t fully appreciate what Wendell Berry offers in this haikuesque poem of just three lines. Come away from modernity to be still enough to catch this passing moment before the looming shadows of daily life hide, once again, the extraordinary deepening grounds waiting in plain sight.

XX (2012) by Wendell Berry

Sit and be quiet. In a while
the red berries, now in shadow,
will be picked out by the sun.

“XX” (2012) by Wendell Berry from This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems © Catapult, 2014: pg. 396.