{"id":7652,"date":"2017-11-09T06:09:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T14:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=7652"},"modified":"2017-11-09T06:09:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T14:09:42","slug":"root-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=7652","title":{"rendered":"Root Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We had yellow leaves, white pumpkins and red rose hips this week. Time to expand the palette. Root vegetables (and other fall crop) will lend their saturated colors, providing opportunity to go the farmer’s market to photograph and to share a poem that spoke to me for years.<\/p>\n

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If you ever need a thoughtful gift for a friend struck with serious illness I recommend Tisha Turk’s small volume of poetry\u00a0Coming out Alive.\u00a0<\/em>Turk teaches at the University of Minnesota with a research focus on popular videography; a life threatening illness in 2003 produced her first volume of poems; they tell stories.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.library.wisc.edu\/parallelpress\/pp-catalog\/poetry-series\/2003-2\/getting-out-alive\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Some are directly related to issues of how to cope with illness, some are indirectly related to themes of how to survive any number of psychological or physical impairments. They are pragmatic, hopeful, sometimes wise. \u00a0(I realize that just like I prefer paintings that tell stories I also tend towards narrative poetry. I wonder what’s that all about.)<\/p>\n

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In any case, here’s to root vegetables. And toughness. And shared pain. To those who listen.<\/p>\n

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And here comes the fun part:<\/p>\n

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