ambrosia pinklady and honeycrisp jonathan rome grannysmith gala fuji and mcintosh like shining rubies as harvest apples appear at farmer roadside stands paper bags for stacked ears corn on the cob the squeak-sound of pulling down the silk checking for worms removing the husks cooking salt shaker slather butter up and down the front teeth chattering like a typewriter clearing the cob row after row then a toothpick or a fingernail when the tooth fairy stole my front teeth at the age of six mom removed the corn from the cob with a sharp knife to chew with my back teeth called the strips of kernels traincars she's flown this planet forty years now but her warm nearness as the harvest in early fall 3.3 10/10 © Brian Peter Hodgkinson
Traincars
21
Apr