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I have been having a lot of fun with the pantoum form lately, and here are two more. I first discovered the pantoum when I heard Robert Morgan present his poem Audubon’s Flute” at a reading. The Kenyon Review has published that lovely poem online. Follow this link to the Poets and Writers’ Website for an article with a set of instructions if you want to try a pantoum for yourself.

My Mother’s Kitchen

Ferment crushed tomatos in acrock
Another crock will hold shredded cabbage
With spice, the tomatoes become ketchup
The cabbage will make a fine saurkraut

Another crock will hold shreeded cabbage
It will garnish spare ribs or kilbasa
The cabbage will make a fine saurkraut
Dig new potatos from the garden

It will garnish spare ribs or kilbasa
Add onions and molases for flavor
Dig new potatos from the garden
A diced apple gives it a a nice touch

Add onions and molases for flavor
With spice, the tomatoes become ketchup
A diced apple gives it a nice touch
Ferment crushed tomatos in a crock

My latest book, It’s Just a Phase, is still available from Walnut Street Publishing.

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Harvest

Orange is the color of the harvest.
Yellow squash and fresh-picked corn abound.
Pumpkins are carved or baked into pies.
Gold and purple flowers form a centerpiece.

Yellow squash and fresh-picked corn abound.
Red leaves of maples carpet the ground.
Gold and purple flowers form a centerpiece.
Acorns fall, a feast for bears and deer.

Red leaves of maple carpet the ground.
A flock of hungry crows may gather where
acorns fall, a feast for bears and deer.
Peels and cores go in the compost heap.

Where a flock of hungry crows may gather,
pumpkins are  carved or baked into pies.
Peels and cores go in the compost heap.
Orange is the color of the harvest.