GARDENING POETICS, THE MOI WAY

I'm actually attempting a major, as in MAJOR, harvest as we speak (we speakin'?) related to ye olde Conjuration...Hopefully, someday, Moi can discuss in public...but meanwhile:

Groan. Do you know how many weeks -- months! -- it would take for this City Slicker to come up with Cornshake's Bounty HERE?! Plus my strawberries are mostly the size of the tips of my littler fingers' fingernails! Well, one just goes ONWARD! as Creeley once sez: to wit, here's my latest Relished W(h)ines List:

THE CITY SLICKER'S HARVEST (to date)
12 Santa Rosa plums (twelve?! pathetic; to date, the birds have gotten about 40...)
26 apricots
54 strawberries
813 basil leaves
327 purple basil leaves
267 mint leaves
300 pinches of parsley
2 zucchini
2 yellow squash
1 orange squash
6 tomatoes


PUBLICATIONS
THE STRAITS, poems by Kristin Palm

NO PAROLE TODAY, poems and memoir by Laura Tohe

UNBECOMING BEHAVIOR by Kate Colby

THE DRUG OF ART: IVAN BLATNY'S SELECTED POEMS, Edited by Veronika Tuckerova

ONE OF A KIND, poetry by Jack Micheline

THE SENSORY CABINET by Mark DuCharme

WITHOUT PEACE, poems by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

KEEPERS OF SILENCE, poems by Luis Cuahtemoc Berriozabal

ROUNDING THE HUMAN CORNERS, poems by Linda Hogan

ITERATURE, poems by Eugene Ostashevsky

IN COMPANY: AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW MEXICO POETS AFTER 1960, Edited by Lee Bartlett, V.B. Price and Dianne Edenfield Edwards

FOURSQUARE, Jan. 2008, Edited by Jessica Smith featuring Jennifer Chang, Ada Limon, Evie Shockley and Kate Middleton

FOURSQUARE, April 2008, Edited by Jessica Smith featuring Laura Elrick, Katie Kemple, Nicole Zdeb and Cathy Eisenhower

AFTER-IMAGES: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES by W.D. Snodgrass

HOPE'S EDGE: THE NEXT DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe

FOR BEA: THE STORY OF THE BEAGLE WHO CHANGED MY LIFE, memoir by Kristin Von Kreisler

WALKING TRACTORS AND OTHER COUNTRY TALES, essays by Bruce Patterson

LA BELLE SAISON; LIVING OFF THE LAND IN RURAL FRANCE, memoir by Patricia Atkinson


WINES
2005 Pizzeria Travigne house chardonnay
Blankiet rose (no year mentioned; only privately distributed)
1996 Jones Family Vineyard cabernet
2004 Dancing Hares Vineyard
2002 Spring Mountain NV Estate red wine
King Brut Grande Cuvee Champagne
2005 Peter Michael Cuvee Indigene
2002 Jean Boillot Puligny-Montrachet Clos de la Mouchere
1983 Margaux
1978 Diamond Creek Volcanic Hill
1988 Ch. Filhot Creme de Tete
1977 Graham's Port
2005 Telegrame White Chateuneuf de Pape
2005 Les Monts Damnes Francoi Cotat Sancerre
2002 Vosne Romanee Aux Brulees ler Cru Domaine Michel Gros
2006 Revers marie Pinot Noir Summa Vineyard Sonoma Coast
2005 Marsannay Les Longeroies Vielles Vignes Regis Bouvee (sp)
1993 Yalumba Octavius
2000 Kistler Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast
1996 Dalla Valle cabernet NV