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Georgic: The Park Slope Food Coop

BY unusualstudent | May 12, 2008 | FILED UNDER Brooklyn, Georgic, Places, Words

Park Slope Food Coop

The food co-op ! what wonderful place
The food co-op! It ain’t no passing craze
IT MEANS FREASH FOOD FOR THE REST OF YOUR DAYS
ITS OUR PROBLEM FREE
SUPERMARKET
The food co-op

FOOD CO-OP! FOOD CO-OP!
FOOD CO-OP! FOOD CO-OP!
FOOD CO-OP! FOOD CO-OP!
FOOD CO-OP! FOOD-

IT MEAN ORGANIC FROM THE LOCAL FARMS
Its our chemical free
Established in 1973….

The food co-op
I say “food”
I say “co-op”

FOOD COOP FOOD COOP FOOD COOP… APPLES, YOGURT, WHOLE GRAINS, CATFISH, COTTAGE CHEESE, ASPARAGUS, FIGS, LEGUMES, AND BRUSSEL SPROUTS….

THE FOOD CO-OP!

Georgic: Sakura

BY unusualstudent | May 12, 2008 | FILED UNDER Brooklyn, Georgic, Places, Words

I never really liked flowers that much
The daisies always seeming too happy
The fragile roses poisoning my touch
All much too big or yet too small to see
But in Park Slope there seems another lot
All pink and white and growing in their crowds
And even dying I see that they’ve got
A sort of charm as petals fall in clouds
Colours against the sky are shocking still
In contrast yet in perfect harmony
Growing when it’s warm yet there’s still a chill
Their beauty comes from their simplicity
Dying and floating down to where we stand
Make a wish on the petal in your hand

Georgic: Watering can

BY Erik Schurink | April 12, 2008 | FILED UNDER Bronx, Brooklyn, Georgic

In early spring-tide, when the icy drip
Melts from the mountains hoar, and Zephyr’s breath
Unbinds the crumbling clod, even then ’tis time…

Spring is back. Upstate is melting.

During spring break I went on a delightful hike with my family and friends, along the Ashokan Reservoir. The reservoir, like others in the area, was created in the early 1900s, I learned. It flooded the town of Ashokan and surrounding farms, to quench the thirst of the big city, downstate.

Home from the hike, looking at the photos taken that walk among as of yet leafless trees, frost and thaw, I feel the need to learn more about this watering can of the five boroughs.

My Brooklyn window looks out on a budding magnolia, and I know the garden hoses around town are starting to be unfurled by the thousands, as I write this.

List of G words from 1968 Dictionary

BY Lynne Sachs | March 10, 2008 | FILED UNDER Brooklyn, Georgic, Information, Words

Here is a list of words beginning with G from a forty year old dictionary I pored over during a residency at the MacDowell Colony. It was fascinating and disconcerting to discover how many amazing words have now disappeared not only from our usage but also from this etymological archive. Gone. We chose georgic — which sent me to a community garden in Brooklyn to reflect on agriculture in the city.

Georgic: Background Information

BY Susan Agliata | May 23, 2007 | FILED UNDER Georgic, Information

The Georgics, published in 29 BC, is the second major work by the Latin poet Virgil. Its ostensible subject is rural life and farming and the work is generally categorized as a “didactic poem”.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgics

Project Guttenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/geore10.txt

Excerpt from Virgil’s Georgic I:

“In early spring-tide, when the icy drip

Melts from the mountains hoar, and Zephyr’s breath

Unbinds the crumbling clod, even then ’tis time;

Press deep your plough behind the groaning ox,

And teach the furrow-burnished share to shine.

That land the craving farmer’s prayer fulfils,

Which twice the sunshine, twice the frost has felt;

Ay, that’s the land whose boundless harvest-crops

Burst, see! the barns.”