The poet, Charles Tomlinson, wrote about Bach as a beekeeper. I then speculated about Galileo as a gardener, and came up with this.
If Galileo Were a Gardener
after Charles Tomlinson
If Galileo were a gardener
he would have seen the sun
as a benefactor, bestowing
life and fine wines, but also
as a troublemaker spawning
heliocentric thoughts, dry days
and drought-disturbing rows
of ripening grapes, a Milky Way
of vines stretched across Tuscany,
producing withered berries
on branches good only for burning,
scorching as the rhetoric coming
from a Church condemning
his carefully made observations
concerning heaven's famed luminary.
Marilyn Aschoff Mellor
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