greenhouses poetry crows poptarts

In Roman times

cucumbers were planted

in wheeled carts

which were put in the sun daily

and then taken inside at night.

In Italy in the thirteenth century

explorers brought

exotic plants back from the tropics

and kept them in greenhouses.

The botanist

Charles Lucien Bonaparte

grew medicinal tropical plants

 in his greenhouse in Holland.

The French called their first

greenhouses orangeries

since they were used to protect

orange trees from freezing.

...

good morning.  it's sunny here.  my feet are bare and cold under this desk.  the crows have been making eerie noises coming from the direction of the baseball diamond and cemetery across the road.  this has been going on for weeks.  i wonder what they are saying.

so, i wrote a little poem about the history of greenhouses for you using sentences i found on wikipedia.  i've been thinking about poetry and writing in general.  i've also been thinking about chocolate covered s'mores poptarts.  and the fact that i should never buy them again because when i do i eat the whole lot.  and we can't have that.