The wild iris - Louise Glück

What might at first seem a sequence
of conversations of a mad voice
with singular, plural, material
and imagined listeners,
suddenly becomes clear
and beautiful as well,
when you finally understand
the underlining pattern.
The book starts when spring begins
and ends when summer finishes.
Flowers communicate with the poet-gardener,
about birth, death, rebirth,
helplessness, terror and hope.
The poetess-creature speaks
(through matins and vespers) with God,
desperate, impudent and skeptical,
about life, death, the afterlife
or the lack thereof.
And God (through seasons, events, phases)
talks to his creation-poetess,
bossy, peremptory and irritated,
about his motives, disappointments
and future, final plans.