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One of the things I'm giving myself permission NOT to do in these last days of summer is overly tend my garden. It's a nice change of pace. I'm not *actually* ready for snow as the poem might imply, but I know it's coming...

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At this point it’s okay.

You can let the tomatoes

slouch into each other

like the end of the party.

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You can stop tending bar,

let the raspberries crash on the floor

let the peas expire in their drinks.

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The cucumbers are telling you to

walk on, their gnarled hands

shielding snifters filled half a dozen times,

now theirs to finish – let them.

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So you poured too late

for the fall greens, who are

just now getting tuned up.

Rest easy, and throw open the door.

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Let in the snow:

let it smart every face,

let it soften the inevitability

of tomorrow.

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I love the images of raspberries crashed on the floor and peas expiring in their drinks! This is such fun!

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"let it soften the inevitability of tomorrow" !!! Yes!

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I love this Rebekah! I am sharing with my friends who are also Northern New England gardeners! You can the seasons shifting here, and for us the tomatoes 🍅 just have not ripened normally! Thank you for this splendid permission poem for perfect and imperfect gardeners!

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