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i sit
with my linen vestments loosely about me
the dense, close cut grass doesn't itch and extends towards the horizon
the massive strawberry tree showers scent from its predictive blossoms
aside from the man-made mounds, round above the delta's flood plane,
each topped by a lone towering tree,
the only things to break the endless view are the levee, the monolith, and the small wooden bridges
the various veins that have slowed, swollen, and spread, as they descended down from the hills
now splash bands of late-afternoon sun from between the uncut grasses beyond the orchard
as the early cicadas stir, a thought - not unlike the footprints of mushroom hunters in wet grass, random yet determined - comes and goes
that thought: what will i do when the cicadas are gone
i know the promise the blossoms above hold
i see the notches in the gnarled bark, the notches for planks, planned for the men to ascend
yet i still don't trust those giant fruit will come
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silly
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how silly... strawberries don't grow on trees.
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flowerock
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Arbutus Ericaceae I think.
sacred_strawberries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus
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some fierce literalists around these parts, flowerock. :)
cf. mango
and nice call, btw, as arbutus is a favorite genus.
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e dumb horticulture studentish
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also, ericaceae is the family. i think you're looking for either a. unedo or a. menziesii (the latter is popular in the trade out here in california's mediterranean climate).
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I see the trees around California. I eat the "sacred strawberries" on walks and runs. I love the bumpy texture of the skin and the gooey insides. mmm. I don't know all the terms, I just copy/pasted what I saw with the pictures of the trees I know as sacred straw berries. cute flowers and cute fruits! typically made into liquor and jams apparently.
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