Potato Sermon Every day I walk past my potatoes. I go by a little earlier or a little later. Their humble leaf helps me think of lack of hubris while I ponder hidden tubers. And down below the humus awaits the Harvest Festival. Ivan Head A Prior Potato Sermon The churchyard wall by the copse divides two crops into potatoes one side corpses the other. One day there will be a clearer distinction between the two, a difference in lumpish density as Aquinas put it long before the potato reached Europe. One will…
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