Hazelnuts from the Garden
Hazelnuts,
hazelnuts fall from tree.
Oh, hazelnuts, what to do with thee,
delicious triggers of
allergy?
We have a couple of hazelnut trees in the garden, and apparently, it is now harvesting season. At least in our garden. We have picked probably already hundreds of hazelnuts, and inspected them. Some are empty shells that look like the local squirrels have feasted on. Others have tiny insect holes in them. But most of them are good to eat. On the advice of a friend, we let them dry for a few days and then eat them. Raw. They are delicious. Unfortunately, eating them raw triggers a mild allergic reaction in my mouth. Nothing scary, but just enough to spoil the fun.
So, I am looking for ways to use these nuts. Any suggestions?
Poetry Elsewhere
Curiosity. It leads to some wonderful things. Like a singing robot. And this poem. From the same author, Roye Segal, there’s also a poem that contains a wild idea. An idea that I subscribe to very much. Life is not a zero-sum game. It’s not about winning at the cost of the other. It’s about winning together. And Roye’s poem has a Wild Idea.
Nonsense? Or art? Or both? Here’s a wonderful story about nonsensical poetry, with a great poem to finish.
I’m not the only one writing tritriplicata poems. This is a great and spiritual one by Molly Skeen: a search for enlightenment. I found it through a poem written by Jim McAulay, who shows how you can string together tritriplicata’s to form a longer poem. Jim is one of the funniest poets I know, and it shows in this poem A Humongous Fungus [Medium paywall, read 5 posts per month for free - let this be one of them].
The poem on top is a tritriplicata, a poetic form I created. If you want to know more about it, click here to find answers to some of the questions you might have. If you want to read a collection of tritriplicata poems, why not buy my ebook Thinking of Europe. It has 27 tritriplicata poems taking you on a journey through Europe.