Turkey Tracks: October 8, 2014
“Cherry Tomatoes,” A Poem
I met Jeanine Gervais on the windjammer J&E Riggin this summer.
We were/are both writing/literature teachers at local colleges/universities.
Since the windjammer trip, we’ve been writing back and forth on email, daily.
Here’s the poem Jeanine sent me yesterday. It really hit home as I had just been out in my own “mid-October” garden, picking cherry tomatoes. She wrote it herself, of course.
Enjoy!
Cherry Tomatoes
My back bends to pick cherry tomatoes
strung like pearls on winding branches
buried amongst rotted vegetables
blackened leaves
the garden in mid-October a shambles.
Cherry tomatoes hidden under
leaves like umbrellas
protected from wind and cold
holding steadfast, saying
Don’t forget me! Don’t forget me!
I am here. I am strong.
Jeanine H. Gervais
October 7, 2014
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