Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Tomatoes

Tomatoes

Globes, teardrops, kidney shapes.
scarred, pleated, cracked with brown,
gold and green and mottled red,
striped and parti-colored
that peculiar green tomato smell
(the smell of a summer garden)
fuzzy stems
yellow flowers
sun and earth and seed:

heirlooms.

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