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Farm Life in Haiku

By Kaila Topping, Phase II Fellow


Daily life on the farm at Augusta Health is hard to describe all at once. It is fun, hard, and always loaded with vegetables. Therefore, I have written a series of haikus, chronicling trivial aspects of life on the farm at Augusta Health.



Snap peas crunch sweetly

but loathsome to the picker

I compost with joy



Remay in the wind

twisting about my body

veil for the new bride



washing cut lettuce

the bane of my existence

torture me no more



all the daily woes

delirious in the heat

happy in hindsight



aphids on the farm

they feast on my sanity

make Pat go crazy



the snails are my buds

rudely munching on our crops

contentious friendship



eggs of the lacewing

hang in delicate balance

eat up our aphids



oh, fish emulsion

bringing strength to our new plants

how I reek of you



Many sides of Pat

Patrice, Patty Pan, Popcorn

Self-assigned nicknames




Tony the t-rex