jarred summer

left to right:

peach pit jelly syrup, tomato soup,

canned peaches, white peach jam, and pluot jam

Mum and I have been working hard.

2 1/2 bushes of peaches, yellow and white,

1/2 bushel of pluotsk and 1 bushel of tomatoes

have all been reduced to splendid fragments

of summer-in-a-jar.

During long, dark winter days,

we'll savor the sweet and the salty,

remember warmth and bounty.