Hard bits

All is not always lovely, even in my favorite season.  I am working on holding the lovely and the not so lovely... together.

I love Fall.

The season

The leaves

The sunlight angling

Just so,

The contrast of blue

And clouds,

Dark birds migrating south.

I know they will return again.

I do not love to eat

Fall vegetables,

Hard and orange

They must be peeled

And baked

Or boiled.

Someone even figured

How to carve them

Into faces.

Still

Fall is my favorite season

Even

With the difficult bits.

I get the car

In the name of paying attention to the particulars, I have now put a hold on our mail and stopped the newspaper.  Today is the therapist, negotiations, vegetables and maps.  I get the car!

First off today

Was the rehearsal

Of how I am doing

With the leaving,

With the individuating,

With the connecting

In different ways.

Now comes the negotiation

Of who gets the car,

Then the haircut,

The vegetable pick-up,

And the trip

To Triple A

For maps of Iowa

Nebraska

And Colorado.

I get the car.

CSA

It seemed time for another go-round for Community Supported Agriculture.  This is the third CSA for the Phillips/Hill household.  I*m not sure there is a CSA without beets on the menu.

On a whim

I ordered weekly vegetables 

Again

I have done this

In the past

But we ended up

With a refrigerator full

Of beets.

This week we are promised

Sugar snap peas

Garlic scapes

Spinach

An unusual turnip

And yes

Of course

Beets.

On a whim I ordered a summer

Of weekly vegetables.

This year I aim to get a handle

On the beets

Eat them or give them away

To beet people.