Tomatoes rosy as perfect baby’s buttocks,
eggplants glossy as waxed fenders,
purple neon flawless glistening
peppers, pole beans fecund and fast
growing as Jack’s Viagra-sped stalk,
big as truck tire zinnias that mildew
will never wilt, roses weighing down
a bush never touched by black spot,
brave little fruit trees shouldering up
their spotless ornaments of glass fruit:
I lie on the couch under a blanket
of seed catalogs ordering far
too much. Sleet slides down
the windows, a wind edged
with ice knifes through every crack.
Lie to me, sweet garden-mongers:
I want to believe every promise,
to trust in five pound tomatoes
and dahlias brighter than the sun
that was eaten by frost last week.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Current by Raymond Carver
- Ольга Ермолаева – В кирзовых сапогах скользить по горной глине
- Sound and Spirit by Oladele Hussein
- Greek Light
- Inscriptions Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone by William Wordsworth
- Not Intrigued With Evening by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Quality Customer Service – How to Measure Customer Satisfaction
- Владимир Британишский – Космонавты
- Валерий Брюсов – Гимн Афродите
- The Seven Sisters by William Wordsworth
- Morning-Land by Siegfried Sassoon
- the_morning_walk.html
- Sonnet Of Motherhood VI poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Советский Союз, намотай на ус – кто Юз
- Омар Хайям – Даже с самой прекрасной из милых подруг
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
