Foliage waves in the wind, sun soaks orange beets, crinkly skin roots clutch soil tips thrust up, beg to be pulled, plopped in boiling water, like live lobsters. Bubbles rumble, cook beets, loosen grime which dim as fingers rub off skin— round balls shine like a baby’s butt. Warm ready to slice, to…
Category: POETRY
Honeysweet
The speckled apple minus its bent brown stem recalls the scent of cloves a familiar fall fragrance squashed between two oranges in the full fruit basket it mirrors sunlight from the window the apple waits for someone to bite down carve out gaps release its juicy taste
Slouching through New York
At thirteen she learns good taste, proper dress, how to speak, carry herself, a refining process necessary for a Jewish princess 1960. Once a week Saturday mornings Mom sends the teen by bus from Jersey to New York. She lunches on a Woolworth’s burger takes a subway— peers at people who mingle, talk…
Thursdays
She rushes home from school Thursdays white saddle shoes trimmed blue, a striped shirt tucked tight to a flared pink skirt. She pulls the front beveled door, lets the screen hit her bottom, aims fast for the woman polishing silver. A worn apron, limp bow at the waist, natty hair beneath a net. Cora turns,…
Chill
Over the apartment balcony the frozen lake sparkles. In the sunlight ripples of water cease, like the stillness of hanging curtains. Ducks curl, huddle stiff as statues beneath bending willows Black cattails battered by breezes fold in the cold Inside people cook, steamy soup simmers we stay warm, read under soft blankets by the sizzling…