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Let The Squash Be What It Was Doomed To Be

4 years ago

For all you gardeners, how are things growing? Here in NY the end of the season is here.


dcarch


Last of the squashes and other goodies from the garden with pork chops




A friend sent me this poem by Robert Francis


Squash In Blossom

How lush, how loose, the uninhibited squash is.
If ever hearts (and these immoderate leaves
Are vegetable hearts) were worn on sleeves,
The squash's are. In green the squash vine gushes.

The flowers are cornucopias of summer,
Briefly exuberant and cheaply golden.
And if they make a show of being hidden,
Are open promiscuously to every comer.

Let the squash be what it was doomed to be
By the old Gardener with the shrewd green thumb.
Let it expand and sprawl, defenceless, dumb.
But let me be the fiber-disciplined tree

Whose leaf (with something to say in wind) is small,
Reduced to the ingenuity of a green splinter
Sharp to defy or fraternize with winter,
Or if not that, prepared in fall to fall.

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  • 4 years ago

    Delicious picture!

    and I like the poem ... it rhymes and has something interesting to say.

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