Posts Tagged ‘Janice Northerns’
Good Tomato
by Janice Northerns She took the purity pledge (Sweet Baby Girl, Super Snow White, Artic Rose), fled the grasp of Big Beef and Better Boy on a Southern Night and, baptized in hydroponics, gleamed waxy and vapid under a fluorescent gaze. She was a good girl (Beauty Queen, Gum Drop, Mighty Sweet,…
Read MoreThe Splendor of the Tomato: Neruda’s Ode and Northerns’ Good Tomato
Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Tomatoes in the garden. July 29, 2020 Today’s poems celebrate one of summer’s most luscious icons—the tomato—both in its sensual abundance…
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