This week we have fingerling potatoes (3 varieties), savoy cabbage, trio beans, rainbow chard deluxe, zucchini, broccoli, winter squash and kale, of course.
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Letter to the Kale in the Garden.
Kale,
Two crates stand empty beside your rows. You are verdant and dew draped. So beautiful. These are the last moments for your leaves to sing in sun and sprinkler.
Little bed of wonder, you have given and given. Now you will feed a hundred people. And when you grow back you will feed a hundred more. And more again.
I see you and your offering. How patient and willing you are for my hungry knife.
Thank you for your service and your light.
Thank you for singing praises of the earth.
Thank you for dancing when the soft summer wind moves like a lover through your supple bodies.
Thank you for providing us the essence of sun and storm.
Do you hear the poems of the knife blade whispering? Do you hear the happy people who will meet you today and take you home into their homes and into their bodies?
Rick
Copyright Rick Sievers, August 2013, All Rights Reserved.
I am truly blessed to be eating the vegetables from your garden. You honor the earth, the plants, and Great Mother with your beautiful spirit and your lovely poems! Blessed Be!
ReplyDeleteLisa Miller