"Blackberry Eating" Poem by Galway Kinnell

In Galway Kinnell's Blackberry Eating, the line, "I love to go out in late September," the time when Kinnell experiences the taste of blackberries, he gives them a certain time. I like the way he describes blackberries, "among the fat, overripe, icy black blackberries." And also, the way he describes them as, "they earn for knowing the black art," making the blackberries seemed important. Kinnell makes them come alive. Kinnell continues talking about his experience with blackberries making them even more interesting by comparing them with words, "fall almost unbidden to my tongue/as words sometimes do..." The last lines, "which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well/in the silent, startled, icy, black language/of blackberry-eating in late September," Kinnell describes eating blackberries as quite an experience. He makes it sound almost like a spiritual experience [I want some of these!].