Valentines by Ted Kooser

Author:Ted Kooser [Kooser, Ted]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8032-7483-9
Publisher: Nebraska
Published: 2014-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE CELERY HEART

CELERY HEARTS: 98 CENTS

—Placard, at Hinky Dinky

Surely it misses those long fly balls of light

its leaves once leapt to catch, or longs to run

its roots out into the salty darkness.

What once looked like a Roman fountain

is now a ruin of fallen columns

bedded on ice. Its only consolations are,

at regular intervals, the hiss of mist,

and at times the warm and reassuring squeeze

of passing hand. But better this, by far,

than to be the sullen heart of artichoke,

stripped of its knives and heavy armor

and mummified for eons in a jar of brine.

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