By Gerard Sarnat
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness..."
-- John Keats, To Autumn
If nice to elope during frigid winter
then spring is the time cantaloupe peaks
plus, summer for sumptuous watermelon.
Autumn’s when you and I get best honeydew
that results in oversized, slightly overripe fruits
which ooze sweet juice – unless like me, eagerness
overcomes prudence to wait just another hour or two…
so as even though well-seasoned, we cut into our not
quite yet
ready for primetime’s unseasonably cheap, lovely,
mellowest most verdant meat.
About the Author:
Gerard Sarnat has won prizes and is a multiple Pushcart/Best of Net Award nominee. Including four collections of poems Gerry's works have been widely published by Brooklyn Review, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Gargoyle, Buddhist Review, New York Times; Oberlin, Northwestern, Yale, Pomona, Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Brown North Dakota, McMaster, Maine, British Columbia/ Toronto/ Chicago and Virginia university presses. He’s a Harvard College/Medical School-trained physician, Stanford professor, and healthcare CEO. More details can be found here.
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