© Janet Davis

Thank you, Lord, for ‘MacIntosh’

And ‘Delicious’ Red and Golden,

For ‘Vista Bella’, ‘Cortland’ too,

(But ‘Mutsu’ I’m not sold on).

For ‘Jerseymac’ and ‘Paula Red’

And nice, tart ‘Gravenstein’,

For ‘Wealthy’, ‘Melba’, ‘Empire’, Snow’

And ‘Granny Smith’, crisp and green.

But thank you, most especially

For my favorite: ‘Northern Spy’,

And thanks….I guess…for pumpkins, too,

But make mine apple pie!!

Adapted from a column that appeared originally in the Toronto Sun

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