Fauxku Choo Choo (the play's the thing)

[Achebe]

on the other side of the equator
the final tomatoes hide behind leaves
faded now, like a splinter of spring
digging into autumn

Holidaying in Ecuador
a backpacker sues Phil Grieves
of Kentucky, Appalachian coal king
for pinching her bottom

I'm really struggling to find the three words from the first stanza reused or repurposed in the second. Am I just being very dense?

I changed it as you were reading.