Pears of Ivan

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Pears of Ivan

POETRY | By Patricia A McGoldrick

The pear tree is languishing next door

Drooping with luscious amber globules

Laboriously tended

By our neighbour, Ivan, from Croatia,

Who boasts practically perfect purple plums

—the best in Canada—

slivovitz awaiting in the brown wooden baskets

while the scent of a pear plum crumble

wafts through the night air—

Put on the coffee…

• Patricia A. McGoldrick writes poems, essays, reviews about history, nature, books and people. Other recently published poems include Neighbourhoods, Flower Pots and Irish Wake in the Irish American Post. Patricia lives and writes in Kitchener, Ontario.

http://pmpoetwriter.blogspot.com, http://sites.google.com/site/pmpoetwriter

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