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