Harvesting Hardballs
August 6, 2014Fruit Vegetable Gallery #3:
Driving along a country road,
I spied a watermelon stand.
I pulled to the side
and watched the workers in the field
where hundreds of watermelons
lounged in one long row.
The field hands,
bent and bowed, hot and sweaty,
had picked the heaviest,
ripest watermelons
and lined them up at the edge of a dirt road.
One by one, they tossed the hardballs,
assembly line style, into an old yellow bus.
The workers sang a lively song,
I imagined to keep the rhythm going,
and their spirits lifted.
I exited my car, picked out a watermelon,
then paid the nice lady in the stand.
Smiling, I left with a mighty fine treat
and harvest music chanting in my ears.
© Dianne Marie Andre
For Ten Facts You Never Knew About Watermelon, click http://www.thetowndish.com/2007/06/07/ten-facts-you-never-knew-about-watermelon/
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Nice! I’d like to think it was even tastier, knowing all the care that went in harvesting it. =)
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Indeed!
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Beautiful words & pictures. Yummy, yummy watermelon. 🙂
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