Riehlife Poem of the Day: Carol Coffee Reposa’s “Vegetable Love in Texas”
Vegetable Love in Texas
by Carol Coffee Reposa
Texas Poetry Calendar: 2008
Farmers say
There are two things
Money can’t buy:
Love and homegrown tomatoes.
I pick them carefully.
They glow in my hands, shimmer
Beneath their patina of warm dust
Like talismen.
Perhaps they are.
Summer here is a crucible
That melts us down
Each day,
The sky a sheet of metal
Baking cars, houses, streets.
Out in the country
Water-starved maize
Shrivels into artifacts.
A desiccated cache
Of shredded life.
Farmers study archeology
In limp straw hats.
But still I have
This feeble harvest,
Serendipity in red:
Red like a favorite dress,
Warm like a dance,
Lush like a kiss long desired,
Firm like a vow, the hope of rain.
the the author words used words Red like a favorite dress to dihow red they are and I pick them carefully.They glow in my hands, shimmer Beneath their patina of warm dust Like talismen to describe the tomato and this shows how much they like there tomatos