Meditation: The Song of the Lark

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The Song of the Lark, by Jules Adolphe Breton

The Song of the Lark

a meditation on the painting

by Jules Adolphe Breton

At the bottom of the sky

an orange sun

meets the field

arranging

a constellation

with her sickle.

The trees, the house,

silo and barns

bind

her body,

her hands

mown with labor, her feet

like stones in the dirt,

her breasts: fruit

in peeling skins.

Her body

rises

from the ground

ground

ground

And her face

blossoms

in the patulous sky

like the song
song
song

of the lark

Listen to a podcast of this poem here.

I had searched for an audio of a lark, without any satisfying results. Now, after Lorenzo's comment about "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan Williams, I am posting a recording of it. I listened to it for the first time today. It is so incredibly beautiful, I just sort of sit speechless, in tears of listening. Please give it your rapt attention if you can take the time for all fifteen minutes.

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