Friday, November 03, 2023

poem, garden, food, winter


Carrots
November 3, 2023

we find carrots
resting after the first hard frost
an inch deeper than iced earth
in their soft-soiled raised beds
now with shingle slate-frim hat

clever trowel
sliding in along the edges
lifting cap in courteous manner
purple and red roots shaken
dangling as beard below

harvest then
comes as a swift shaking
two-foot plates cut lose
in cheerful steel strokes
carrots into bucket

hat back to bed
now a-wintering

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