Carol Coffee Reposa: "Vegetable Love in Texas"

Farmers say There are two things Money can't buy: Love and homegrown tomatoes. I pick them carefully. They glow in my hands, shimmer Beneath their patina of warm dust Like talismen. Perhaps they are. Summer here is a crucible That melts us down Each day, The sky a sheet of metal Baking cars, houses, streets. Out in the country Water-starved maize Shrivels into artifacts. A desiccated cache Of shredded life. Farmers study archeology In limp straw hats. But still I have This feeble harvest…

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