California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia recites his poem "The Apple Orchard" about walking through an apple orchard in Sebastopol, California with a woman he loved in college. Gioia is a formalist poet who emphasizes rhyme and meter in his poems.
The poem first appeared in his 2012 collection "Pity The Beautiful," but is reprinted in his most recent collection of poetry, which you can buy here - goo.gl/hwtQwq
"The Apple Orchard" by Dana Gioia
You won’t remember it-the apple orchard
We wandered through one April afternoon,
Climbing the hill behind the empty farm.
A city boy, I’d never seen a grove
Burst in full flower or breathed the bittersweet
Perfume of blossoms mingled with the dust.
A quarter mile of trees in fragrant rows
Arching above us. We walked the aisle,
Alone in spring’s ephemeral cathedral.
We had the luck, if you can call it that,
Of having been in love but never lovers-
The bright flame burning, fed by pure desire.
Nothing consumed, such secrets brought to light!
There was a moment when I stood behind you,
Reached out to spin you toward me . . . but I stopped.
What more could I have wanted from that day?
Everything, of course. Perhaps that was the point-
To learn that what we will not grasp is lost.
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