In a dream I meet
my dead friend. He has,
I know, gone long and far,
and yet he is the same
for the dead are changeless.
They grow no older.
It is I who have changed,
grown strange to what I was.
Yet I, the changed one,
ask: “How you been?”
He grins and looks at me.
“I been eating peaches
off some mighty fine trees.”
A Meeting
Analysis, meaning and summary of Wendell Berry's poem A Meeting
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I am doing this poem for my homework, i do not quite understand it but think that it is rather strange. He is saying that his friend iss dead but he asks him how he is,he says he is eating peaches, wierd eh?