It’s just begun today
Early spring’s promise
and I can wait patiently
for the red blush of tomatoes
to dazzle the sun-bleached garden
as sunflowers stand sentinel
When the towering blooms stretch
higher than zucchini vines reach
along the garden fence.
In the corner the cherry tomatoes
remain true to their covenant to
pay us a visit each year
From hardy seeds resistant to
the chill of the Alberta clipper
and steel blades of the tiller
I can wait reverently, mindfully,
for warm rains to nurture
tangy succulence from the crimson
fruit.
Nothing, oh nothing
speaks summer like the fullness of
the harvest, unhurried, ready.
c 2013 by Katherine Harris Szerdy
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