COOL*CRISP*CRUNCHY*CUCUMBERS
Summer is coming and where would we be with out the
beautiful perfect vegetable the cucumber??Not only are they refreshing to munch on..SEE Kevin's Closet Cooking Blog for this Cool mouthwatering Cucumber and Feta salad.. YUM I recently purchased some wonderfully
refreshing products that smell Out Of This World!!
I can't stop smelling myself!
Another ridiculously easy and good for you
summer treat is adding sliced cucumber to a jug of water..So good.. Take down eye puffiness..cool those peepers.. And we can't forget to include some of ETSY's
Cool as A Cucumber products!!
aBreathofFrenchairFresh Cucumber water
Spray on LotionBibBonCucumber Sleep Eye MaskDeShawnMarieCreamy Cucumber Handmade SoapSometimes from this hillside just after sunset
The rim of the sky takes on a tinge
Of the palest green, like the flesh of a cucumber
When you peel it carefully.
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In Crete once, in the summer,
When it was still hot at midnight,
We sat in a taverna by the water
Watching the squid boats rocking in the moonlight,
Drinking retsina and eating salads
Of cool, chopped cucumber and yogurt and a little dill.
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A hint of salt, something like starch, something
Like an attar of grasses or green leaves
On the tongue is the tongue
And the cucumber
Evolving toward each other.
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Since cumbersome is a word,
Cumber must have been a word,
Lost to us now, and even then,
For a person feeling encumbered,
It must have felt orderly and right-minded
To stand at a sink and slice a cucumber.
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If you think I am going to make
A sexual joke in this poem,
you are mistaken.
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In the old torment of the earth
When the fires were cooling and disposing themselves
Into granite and limestone and serpentine and shale,
It is possible to imagine that, under yellowish chemical clouds,
The molten froth, having burned long enough,
Was already dreaming of release,
And that the dream, dimly
But with increasing distinctness, took the form
Of water, and that it was then, still more dimly, that it imagined