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
- Nailing by Mike Yuan
- Ballade Of A Toyokuni Colour-Print by William Ernest Henley
- Владислав Крапивин – Все спит в тропической ночи
- Гавриил Державин – Похвала комару
- Emotions in exile by Shailendra Chauhan
- Goatsucker by Sylvia Plath
- Такахама Кёси – О, как ночь коротка
- To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady’s Brother and Sister by Phillis Wheatley
- The Flower-Fed Buffaloes by Vachel Lindsay
- Purdah by Sylvia Plath
- He Thinks Of Those Who Have Spoken Evil Of His Beloved by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Размышления у парадного подъезда
- Sergei Esenin – Sergueï Essénine – Stars
- Spanish Banks
- Николай Гумилев – Орел Синдбада
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).
