Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

Apples Live Up To Prediction

rich fertile tree with brown-turning wrinkled leaves
surrounded by your own fruitful bounty
many rounded orbs with teeth marks in them
do Kansas deer have teeth?

begin to count them as I rake them up
one apple, two apples, three apples, four
lose count at fifty-eight or sixty-eight, unsure
it is going to be a hard winter I tell my husband,

sorting these apples is a mess.
some are barely salvageable, squishy and overused
there are few without defects, but I do not blame the tree
she does the best she can, every year

this year she surpassed herself
living up to prediction of Farmer’s almanac
winter will be colder and nastier than usual
which explains this unforeseen number of apples in October

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L Milton Hankins November 20, 2022 at 9:03 PM I do believe that Mother Nature gives us many signs that tell us what the forthcoming seasons will be like. I haven't seen a wooly warm this year. Caren Krutsinger November 22, 2022 at 9:10 PM I have more walnuts in my yard this year than I have had in my yard all together in the past 16 years. Get food now and hunker down!