Pine Island, NY

Your fertile furrowed fields cultivate
and harvest urban minds to meditate
on what must come from country, sweat, and seed
immersed in soil richer than all human greed:
such lush abundance hungers rarely know
until we till the land by hand and grow.




Pine Island, NY © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.

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Links to more information about Pine Island, New York:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Island ,_New_York

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dirt_Region

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/dining/24onio.html
Submitted: September 14, 2020









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