Ode to Tomatoes

A large quantity of tomatoes, likely for sale or processing, given the presence of what appears to be a scale in the background.

by Pablo Neruda  The street filled with tomatoes midday, summer, light is halved like a tomato, its juice runs through the streets. In December, unabated, the tomato invades the kitchen, it enters at lunchtime, takes its ease on countertops, among glasses, butter dishes, blue saltcellars. It sheds its own light, benign majesty. Unfortunately, we must…

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The Splendor of the Tomato: Neruda’s Ode and Northerns’ Good Tomato

Tomatoes in the garden.

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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