The Red Wheelbarrow Suite

This Is Just to Say

This is just to say
I have eaten the plums
that were in the icebox
and which you were
probably saving for breakfast.
Forgive me.
They were delicious.
So sweet and so cold.

Silence

Under a low sky
this quiet morning
of red and yellow leaves,
a bird disturbs
no more than one twig
of the green leaved
peach tree.

The Red Wheelbarrow

So much depends
upon a red wheelbarrow
Glazed with rain water
beside the white chickens.

The Red Wheelbarrow Suite

Performance by the
University of Western Ontario
Faculty of Music Chorus
Darryl Edwards, conductor
London, Ontario
Canada