Delighted with Bluepink

by Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen

Flowers! My friend, be delighted with what you like; but with
something
Be delighted with something. Yesterday for me it was watching sun
on stones; wet stones.
I spent the morning lost in the wonder of that. A delight of god's
SIze.
The gods never saw anything more enchanting than that. Gor-
geous! the sun on wet stones.
But today what delights me is thinking of bluepink flowers! Not
that I've seen any...
Actually there isn't a flower of any kind in the house.-Except in
my head.
But, my friend, oh my friend! what wonderful bluepink flowers!
Delight in my bluepink flowers!

(1954)





Last updated February 11, 2023