Your blueberry eyes elicit
A craving so strong
That my mouth opens
In surprise; it longs
For dessert in the desert
The way the bluebird homes
After hunting the wide day
For words which wiggle with life
With which to feed the sentences
Of that aching brood.
--Don Hagelberg
This poem and the others mentioned below were read on Radio Station KGO broadcasting from San Francisco as well as from a closed broadcast station online through Portland OR.
[From "Finnish-American Poetry by Rauhala, Vartnaw, Hagelberg"] [Berkeley CA; UFKB&S; 2010] p 41; copyright 2010 by Don Hagelberg]
I have re-printed three other poems on this site, if you are interested, from the volume mentioned above.
Those three poems were:
"Brandied by Sweets,"
"In This Finn Hall of Lights,"
and
"Steam-Cleaned."

beautiful poem, well written and filled with an inner beauty calling out to all that search from loves hunger. Bravo