Phillis Levin

Under a cherry treeI found a robin’s egg,broken, but not shattered.
I had been thinking of you,and was kneeling in the grassamong fallen blossoms
when I saw it: a blue scrap,a delicate toy, as lightas confetti
It didn’t seem real,but nature will do such thingsfrom time to time.
I looked inside:it was glistening, hollow,a perfect shell
except for the missing crown,which made it possibleto look inside.
What had been thereis gone nowand lives in my heart
where, periodically,it opens up its wings,tearing me apart.


I picked this peom because it was called end of April and my birthday is in April so it's my favorite month. I like the poem after I read it because it had a deeper meaning that just a peom about nature.