" Farmer's Market..."A Poem by ChrisA Sunday sort of thingSometimes I feel we
need to be HEARD with the
"nows" ears and not just our “always” eyes.
“Farmer’s Market…”
Sunday morning - sound
of life Breath …beginnings,
movings. Sun’s light - flowing
out and in peaking and peekings,
patterns and weavings thoughts floating and
flowings - …the softness of a glistening you… to coffee and the
rising sun.
A chill autumn day both bright and full. And the crispness feels …good as the hand grasps “possibles” bag and
stick. Strides begin as the
mind awakes and sings and breathes to each separate taste of todays way.
Red, yellow, and rainbowed
peppers. Drams of honeys - full field flavored and
even combs. Season’s last green
beans, midsummer's squash and fall’s flower
colors, pumpkins - all sizes,
shapes and hues.
Sweet onions, cabbage,
garlic, basil, thyme, rosemary
grown wild. Fresh made noodles and
pastas, seasonings… butchered meats, fresh
trucked fish, Honey Crisp Apples
sweet and dear. A smattering of
cheeses, fresh organics, free range eggs, and a
little sweet corn …and then the ciders
too.
So much freshness -
their tastes forgotten as we shop
supermarkets and chain stores. And yet so often
remembered when you sit at
tomorrow’s tables and pass the pale
canned versions of limp and taste-less
somethings not EVER remembered. Familiar voices of the
hawkers - doing what they do
best chattering as friends and
neighbors do for they are mine
after all. Playing a lil catch-up, haggling and dealing and the winners count
coup as the losers step up.
And the sad lil smile
as I turn away - today was this years
last day… I already miss them
all.
Chris © 2013 ChrisAuthor's Note
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