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
- It Takes a While to Disappear by Ralph Angel
- The Waist of Time by The Waist of Time
- Mulholland’s Contract by Rudyard Kipling
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Юлия Друнина – Сочетание
- To The Royal Society
- Twelve Years by Paul Celan
- Sonet 33 by William Alexander
- Pursuit by Sylvia Plath
- A Night With Passion! by Stevens Cadet
- Юрий Галансков – Справедливости окровавленные уста
- Robert Burns: Strathallan’s Lament:
- A Song of an Autumn Night. by Wang Wei
- Recorders Ages Hence. by Walt Whitman
- Diary of a Church Mouse poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
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).