Viennese Escapes: Towards the Rendezvous with the Harvest Moon

Laden With Fruit
Apples picked and placed
by an unknown hand, just so,
on the wooden bench
of a red painted coach

The unruly branches
of an espaliered pear tree
threaten to ignore the window bars
and reach for the inside of the house,
offering its fruit as a bribe

The sun,
aware of the season's precipiting fall,
washes the courtyard walls
with one last glorious swipe

and then moves on
to harness the horses
for the ride heavenwards,
to her rendezvous
with the harvest moon

Homestead Museum
Niedersulz
Lower Austria
35 miles northeast
of Vienna

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Images and Text
© 2010 by Merisi