![]() ![]() As increasing numbers ripened so their colouring would indicate maturity ( the red ones inked up). The front-runner (just one, a glossy purple clot) savoured for its flesh…sweet/ Like thickened wine was sufficient to whet the desire to savour ( lust or picking). Each bramble would carry blackberries at different stage of maturity and edibility: red, green, hard as a knot. Reference to summer’s blood ensures the idea of a ‘living’ fruit. From late summer blackberries would grow in profusion around the family home at Mossbawn.Įvery year optimum growing conditions of moisture and warmth ( heavy rain and sun) would guarantee a crop of blackberries. Recalling himself as a boy enjoying a family activity that appealed to his nature and all his senses Heaney show-cases his talent for transposing close observation into words. ![]()
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