Tomato Bowl

How many fruits have filled this bowl? 

How many tomatoes? How many apples

Were peeled into it's curves?

Golden honey-scented pears?

How many green beans were served

With new potatoes? Sliced sugary peaches?

Ears of yellow corn? Savory vegetable soup?

How many slices of cantaloupe? Blackberries?

I wonder whose bowl it was before it was mine?

Did she use it to mix a cake

Batter for her son's seventh birthday?

Did she love it like I do?

Tomatoes

Preparing food for winter

Winter? Really?

Who believes in winter

When it's so, so hot?

I do. We do.

We know God promised

Spring, summer, autumn, winter

To the end of time.

Really!

Fruit Bowl

Green and red

Red and green.

Like Christmas,

Like cardinals in pine trees,

Like strawberries under leaves,

Like Irish plaid.

Like roses against stems,

Like salsa and lime,

Like tulips in spring.

Like watermelon and rind.

Green and red.

Red and green.

Like apples and tomatoes.

Farmer's Market

Colors, tastes, shapes

A work of art

Red, green, purple, green, red, green,

Orange, green, yellow, green, 

Black, green

Green, green, green

Bulbous, round, oval, pointed, curved,

Cylindrical
Sweet, tart, hot, mild.

Someone knelt and planted seed.

Someone watered. 

God gave sunlight.

Time, more rain, time.

God sent rain.

A back bent,

A hand harvested.

An artist arranged.