A More Romantic, Contemporary, Practical, Tasty and Overall Better Dance

My Father planted
A fiveplumgraft in our back yard
That's five! Count them please

He has since passed on
The plum tree to his children
A love/hate affair

Some years we canned plums
Others, over pruned... chaos!
Others still, neglect–

Death! Now there are just
Three types of plum on our tree
Red, yellow and prune

This Winter...
Something most unusual
Happened

"Car Makers Bankrupt"
So the family turns to art
For the holidays

Little did we know
Our quinplum reborn plumterce
Offered us a gift

Yes, after all leaves
Had fallen accept on one
Ostentatious branch

There were two plums left
Ripening slow in winter
Mud on all of us!

They were doing the
Lyndy Hop, Balboa, Jive,
The Boogie Woogie...

Having so much fun
One upping the entire
Christmas Day party!

Proof positive that
The Better Most Grand Dance is
Plums out of season!



© Donald Grube, 2010