Three years ago,
I made a disastrous,
ill-fated mistake;
I planted two tomato seeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Little did I know,
those two seeds made a promise,
or perhaps a pact,
to carry out a cruel legacy upon my garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The following year,
I planted bell peppers.
They never saw the light of day \u2013
the tomatoes had survived the winter and the frost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their monarchy established,
they choked out sprouts before they could bloom;
their army of vines
forced strawberries to surrender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now,
they\u2019ve claimed divine right to the sun,
any plant that suggests they share
shrivels and fades in the shade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know that once I\u2019m buried deep under,
looking up at my radishes from below,
those tyrants will continue to have their way,
and they will make sure the radishes rot with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three years ago,I made a disastrous,ill-fated mistake;I planted two tomato seeds. Little did I know,those two seeds made a promise,or perhaps a pact,to carry out a cruel legacy upon my garden. The following year,I planted bell peppers.They never saw the light of day \u2013the tomatoes had survived the winter and the frost. Their monarchy established,they … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-CF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Cora Hyatt is a poet, student, and Indiana transplant presently living in Portland, Oregon. If delivering flowers, send red carnations.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"