Fresh June
Montmorency red
Fruit ready for cardinals
And lattice-top pies.
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Montmorency red
Fruit ready for cardinals
And lattice-top pies.
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I’ve eaten those cherries! Tart but good!
Thank you, Sylvia. Cherries and cherry trees mean a lot to me and to my family.
And you remind me of William Carlos Williams, and cold plums I ate on Lick Branch one night long ago.
High praise. Thank you.
Jennifer and I read your poems together. Being versed in food she automatically began to describe the Montmorency and I being versed hardly at all grabbed a pen to catch her phrase.
A cherry tree grew by the side door of the house where I grew up. I didn’t know cherries had names until Teresa DiBiaggi told me that a neighbor told her that Montmorency was the very one, the cherry of cherries. When I realized we could plant cherry trees, we chose Montmorency, and oh, the flavor! But they are delicate in our humidity, it seems. We may have to replace with the less storied, more fungus-resistant North Star.