Friday, February 12, 2021

Nuns Walking in the Orchard

Read "Nuns Walking in the Orchard" at The Eldritch Dark:

http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/poetry/386/nuns-walking-in-the-orchard

This is the second in a series of three haiku from Clark Ashton Smith (CAS) dealing with the Auburn (California) Foundation of The Religious Sisters of Mercy.  

As with "Spring Nunnery" (see my previous blog post), "Nuns Walking in the Orchard" draws a strong contrast, in this case between the "Sable-robed" nuns and the "red cherries / Ripening with June."  It's a rich visual image, but it also emboldens my theory that CAS is suggesting a divergence between the cloistered lives of the Sisters and the fecund phenomenon of early summer, as nature pours forth the fleshy bounty of a very physical world.

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