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
- eudaemonism_in_a_senryu_novel.html
- Владимир Маяковский – Успокоилась Франция, злобой не пышет… (РОСТА №625)
- I Dream’d in a Dream. by Walt Whitman
- A Tree Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet CVII: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor the Prophetic Soul by William Shakespeare
- A Minor Poet by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Tommy by Rudyard Kipling
- “By Moscow Self-Devoted To A Blaze” by William Wordsworth
- On Receiving Hayley’s Picture by William Cowper
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я уверен, как ни разу в жизни
- Robert Burns: Inscription: Written on the blank leaf of a copy of the last edition of my poems, presented to the Lady whom, in so many fictitious reveries of passion, but with the most ardent sentiments of real friendship, I have so often sung under the name of-“Chloris.”
- Sonnet 13: O, that you were your self! But, love, you are by William Shakespeare
- Юнна Мориц – Веселый завтрак
- Robert Burns: Young Jamie, Pride Of A’ The Plain:
- Федор Сологуб – Забыв о счастьи, о весельи
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).
