July 19, 2011
Digging Deeper

Is this the only poem in the world to open with a vignette about squash bugs?

fooled the squash bugs
by setting young plants
in the center of piles
of old weathered cedar shingles
that i had dumped
one truckload at a time
around the perimeter of the woods

Digging Deeper~ By Phillip Carroll Morgan

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