Boys in trees in October - Shakespeare's Monkeys

boys in trees in October

boys in trees in October

across sundowned and dappled
paradise
in breeze becoming
green gone gold,

along the threads
of waning light
from lawn to limb
they climb and cling
then reach again

with fingertips,
with sole to bole,
peel away the gravity

and bend in wind,
chest to tree,

the higher up
the harder held

then down they drift
through still and soft,

        cramped
        and mapled hands
        brushed on grass
        wet with first dew.

Aphasic -

I found this interesting for two reasons Norm.
First, the rhythm - it has a distinctly regular and, I assume, intentional cadence until the last stanza (which is also indented), that caught my attention, and made me want to re-read, to see if the conclusion would cast a different, or undiscovered perspective on the whole.
Second, the title - which in retrospect, had an effect on me. The stereotypical impression of 'boys in trees' is possibly one of 'action' - maybe something like 'boys will be boisterous', whereas this has an atmosphere redolent of sensitivity, the sensory experience, and in part it's almost sensual - well, to my ears anyway :>

U668857 -

Beautiful imagery and it has a lilting music due to the

alliteration and internal rhyme. I found myself replacing

"first" in the last line with "early" - I think because of

iambic consistency (but I can see the connection with Eden

and "first"). I like the constrained Romanticism in this

appealing lyric...BRgds.,Alan.

Norm -
Thanks for the kind words.