Carrots!

Well halleluia, we found a food that Evangeline likes! Carrots. Hadn't tried them before. So I guess I found a way to give my girl a nice fake tan since the only things she likes are sweet potatoes and carrots. Her skin should have that nice orange glow :)

The Wild Carrot Field

by Susan Pendelton

Sun browned field,

Wild carrots dipping;

My task to pull them

while the minutes go slipping.

In beauty bending,

Nodding in grace

Shimmering, pestilent

Queen Anne's lace;

Two thousand, three thousand

Grime and stain.

Last year, this year, 

Next year again.

Some folks pity, 

Seeing me bend.

"She has a task 

that will never end."

Yet there comes strangely, 

Plodding like this,

Almost hopeless,

Some hint of bliss.

Red sun slanting,

Shadows so fair!

I pause to worship

With head bare.

Wiping the sweat

With torn sleeve.

(There is a heaven

I do believe.)

Colors deepen

With shadowing.

Beauty holds me.

Imprisoning.

Little wind blowing

Sets the lace shaking.

Loveliness here

For a heart is breaking,

Let me continue,

Six, seven-

If I stop too sudden

It might snap heaven.