[lit-ideas] Re: The second horn, or Sunday Poem
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 00:01:55 -0700
On Nov 1, 2008, at 11:53 PM, John McCreery wrote:
American or oriental persimmons? The little ones that are puckery
as hell when green or the big ones that are luscious when they ripen?
Persimmons are more complicated than I knew when I planted the tree.
At that point I had two thoughts in mind: the females of the family
like eating persimmons and my father goes on about persimmon golf
clubs. So I went to the nursery and asked for a persimmon, put the
thing in the ground, waited. It turns out that there are eight kinds
of astringent persimmon and seven of the other kind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persimmon
Ours look well, but no one eats them. Kind of acorn shaped, large,
look like ornaments on a Christmas tree? Possibly good for jam? Or
wine?
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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