Blackberry Eating

The poem Blackberry Eating, by Galway Kinnel, is a very simple but deep poem. The poem in a literal translation is about the eating of overripe, cold, black berries in September. The important point of the poem is in the detail of the words and actions.The little blackberries are eaten for breakfast, and are protected by the little prickly stalks. I felt as if the stalks were guarding their secret of making tasty blackberries, almost like Nature herself nurtures and protects her recipes. The poet eats them and splurges their juicy ripe goodness when they are in his mouth and on his tongue. The blackberries seem as if they are willing to be eaten, or maybe, Nature trusts the poet enough to allow him a taste for breakfast. I think the poem deals with relationship with nature, morals, and even mortality. The nature is defined as the relationship with the blackberries, the morality in the poem is how the poet interacts, almost intimately, with the blackberries, and the mortality is the end the blackberries meet when eaten, only for them to grow back and become overripe to continue the cycle.