July heatwave
sugar peas
lose their sweetness
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Juditha Dowd
Juditha Dowd is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet with work appearing in The Florida Review, Poetry Daily, Cider Press Review, Spillway, Ekphrasis and elsewhere. Her full-length collection, Mango in Winter (Grayson Books, 2013), joins three previously-published chapbooks. She is a poetry editor for US1 Worksheets and a member of ?Cool Women,? an ensemble performing poetry in the metro area and on the west coast.
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Ah, missed the boat perhaps, regarding the food?
Wikihow says:
Growing sugar snap peas is easy and requires minimal care. Sugar snap peas are a cool-weather crop that should be planted two to four weeks before the last frost in the spring, or six to eight weeks before the first frost occurs in the fall.
My sweetness is more towards chestnuts:
Oxford Street
the sweet chestnut vendor’s
blackened fingers
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Snapshot Press Calendar 2011
Award credit: Runner up, Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar 2010
I hope that it's only sugar peas that lose their sweetness in July, or are you thinking of a new person in your life? ;-)
warmest regards,
Alan
Hmmm I thought this might have been hinting at a summer fling! I like it :)
marion
If I were a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, now I’d say “Kanabuwgo, dude!”