Five Is Nature Poem by Douglas Scotney
Five Is Nature
Re garlic,
it's natural for one foot of it
to have a varying number of toes -
that's how garlic grows.
But if you ask for a hand of bananas,
and the shopkeeper
pulls out one with fingers 8,
you say, 'Give it a break!
I want nature, mate.'
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Topic(s) of this poem: foot,growth,hands,math,natural,nature,shopping
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
after discovering that Germans call a clove of garlic eine Zehe, a toe;
and assuming they call a knob of it ein Fuss, a foot.1 Sept.2019
and assuming they call a knob of it ein Fuss, a foot.1 Sept.2019
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