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Welcome back to The Daily Poem, a podcast from Goldberry Studios. I'm Sean Johnson, and today is Friday, October 16, 2026. Today's poem is by Ted Kuser, and it's called Applesauce. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and I suspect that most people who grew up north of the Mason Dixon have some kind of nostalgic association with fall and apples.
Apple picking, cider pressing, what have you. That's certainly the case for me, even though we live in a world and in a time when you can get apples year round and a surprising variety of apples even. really is nothing like a fresh seasonal varietal apple harvest to make autumn feel so present
and real. Even here in northwest Florida, we make a seasonal order from a northern wholesaler who trucks loads and loads of fresh apples down this way once a year. And that time is fast approaching and it made me think about the numerous and various and sundry things that we do with these bushels of apples that we get all at once.
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