Let’s call it tomato magic,
One plant–the other is tragic…
No flowers at all
Will any by Fall,
Fill our tomato basket?
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The plant with flowers has six,
Pollination depends on bug tricks…
They both grew
In a back window to,
Be grown in our garden …n the sticks!
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We planted some flowers on sale,
They’ve brightened up our little vale…
Continuing to grow
With tomato,
Seeing bright flowers never gets stale!
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–J. E. Caswell
FLURRIES FLYING FANCIFULLY
(Sing to “The Yellow Rose of Texas…” if you want!)
Oh, the snow accumulation
Is lesser up north,
Not a normal situation
When snow sallies forth…
This one came in from the south
And started early,
Where Worcester has about one inch
In Douglas, over three!
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Snow fairies must be dancing
Hard in winter swirls,
Longer in the southern
Woods like dancing-girls…
We started plowing earlier
Out in the sticks,
But up north in Worcester
The plow’s called in for six.
–Jonathan Caswell
By the Mighty Mumford 