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Perfect Life

Posted by in on 12-8-14

In my perfect life
I grow vegetables
and lots of herbs
right outside
through the kitchen
screen door, opening
to my garden.
With shears in my hand
I’m cutting basil and
parsley for an Italian
dinner. I’m happiest
when the tomatoes are
red and ripe, and there’s
enough zucchini for a
whole summer. Across
the garden, a man is in
the garage, tinkering
with electronics to see
if he can get them going.
He watches me
picking vegetables,
kneeling, hands in the soil.
He’s smiling. Eyes are
soft, content. He knows
this is everything.
I call out to him
Dinner’s ready!

 

Summer Potager Style Garden with Freshly Harvested Vegetables in Wooden Trug, Norfolk, UK
Summer Potager…  Gary Smith  Buy This at Allposters.com

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About the Contributor:

Heather Awad has been writing poetry for twenty years. She began exclusively writing as a personal therapy she has recently become more instrumental in sharing and networking in various poetry circles. She has very recently submitted to many publishing award contests and thus far, individual poems have been published on websites such as The Oz Poetic Society and Poetry Super Highway. Her chapbook poetry manuscript On Being Human was selected on July 31, 2014 as a quarter finalist in the Casey Shay Mary Ballard Poetry Prize Contest. Heather received her AAS in Criminal Justice and lives with her 12-year old daughter in Endicott, NY.

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