Blueberries

by

Author Robert Frost
Photograph by Doris Ulmann, 1929. Platinum print. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

Blueberries as big as the end of your thumb, 
Real sky-blue, and heavy, and ready to drum 
In the cavernous pail of the first one to come!
And all ripe together, not some of them green
And some of them ripe! You ought to have seen!