| I remember my Sicilian father tending to
| |
| | lime atop the Kentucky blue grass seed,
|
| his garden, a beer can poised in a flower
| |
| | and rope off the entire area with string,
|
| bed, a cigarette hanging out of his
| |
| | sticks, and rags, to deter any intruders.
|
| mouth. He would grow several kinds of
| |
| | It offended him greatly when squirrels
|
| tomatoes, zucchini the size of baseball
| |
| | would steal his nearly ripe peppers,
|
| bats, and the most perfectly shaped green
| |
| | because they never ate them, they just
|
| peppers. Our front lawn was always
| |
| | batted them about the way a cat would a
|
| impeccable. He would turn over the
| |
| | ball of yarn.
|
| ground, deposit a coating of snow-white
| |
| |
|
