Thursday, August 18, 2022

The Giving Squash

From leaves to stem,

Flowers to fruit, seeds and skin,

You give all of you and your kin:

Your sweet flesh into our muffins,

Your baked crunchy seeds between our teeth,

Before you’re carved into a Jack ‘o Lantern.

 

In my omelette, your chopped leaves and stems,

And in my fritters today, your lovely flowers.

Now who wouldn’t want you in their garden?

MLJ/18/08/2022



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