An Artist Who Writes
About the time the chlorophyll-producing plants get weary in the garden, the mushrooms are just getting ready to party. After I applied a fresh layer of ground yard waste on the native plant garden a few weeks ago and watered it a few times, I have had some surprises appear. Here is the latest show. I have no idea what type of mushroom they are. At every stage they look quite different- suitable for fairy play.
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This is my alternative news outlet lately…
The Garden Gazette
Off with the news
out to the garden
plenty of good tidings to report there
The red of ripe tomatoes
peeking from a tangle of foliage
zucchini lurking like green submarines
below the surface of splaying leaves
a raspberry to pluck here and there
the green beans are longer than yesterday
maybe tomorrow for dinner?
dangling cucumbers play hide and seek
eluding my grasp
the sunflowers have opened their cheery faces
to the delight of probing bumblebees
the eggplants are ready to pick!
This is a better way to begin one’s day
in the company of bees
to the whirr of hummingbird’s wings
to the gifts of my labors
the earth brings forth
I was out in the garden today “putting it to bed “ for the winter. It’s good work on a chilly autumn day. I looked up at the sky and the colorful leaves and said to myself “this day deserves a poem- just do it” so I dashed off to the house in search of a notebook and pen. Sometimes you just have to pause, be amazed, and write about it!
Putting the Garden to Bed
Under an intense blue sky
My garden disappears
with each whack of the machete
As I work I discover monstrous cucumbers
Submerged in dying vines like green submarines
And overlooked onions hiding below the straw
The parsnips pull out of the ground reluctantly as always
Sadly too mature to be good eating
As my armloads of spent foliage build up the compost pile
I sigh with memories of sweet tomatoes
And savory salads
I leave the dried heads of the sunflowers standing
For the chickadees’ delight
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