<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452625" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Winter Promises</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tomatoes rosy as perfect baby's buttocks, <br>eggplants glossy as waxed fenders, <br>purple neon flawless glistening <br>peppers, pole beans fecund and fast <br>growing as Jack's Viagra-sped stalk, <br>big as truck tire zinnias that mildew <br>will never wilt, roses weighing down <br>a bush never touched by black spot, <br>brave little fruit trees shouldering up <br>their spotless ornaments of glass fruit: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I lie on the couch under a blanket <br>of seed catalogs ordering far <br>too much. Sleet slides down <br>the windows, a wind edged <br>with ice knifes through every crack. <br>Lie to me, sweet garden-mongers: <br>I want to believe every promise, <br>to trust in five pound tomatoes <br>and dahlias brighter than the sun <br>that was eaten by frost last week.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marge+Piercy">Marge Piercy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452625" data-title="Winter Promises de Marge Piercy" data-description="Tomatoes rosy as perfect baby's buttocks, eggplants glossy as waxed fenders, purple neon flawless glistening peppers, pole beans fecund and fast growing as Jack's Viagra-sped stalk, big as truck tire zinnias that mildew will never wilt, rose..."></div> </div> </div>

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