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Ode to Tomatoes
The tangle of vines ripens the same
lazy way tropical days linger—
sun hovering over ocean,
the rich ambling ashore to sample
the local catch, red snapper
parched with garlic, dark beer
with slice of lime, luxury not
the yacht moored beside a sorry
fleet of working dories,
not the lavish fare, but a calm
that comes at dusk, the casual
progression of moments
unnoticed, like the one
who replenishes your glass
before it's ever empty.
©Christian Knoeller, 2008
Christian Knoeller, BAWP ’91, works with undergraduate pre-service English teachers at Purdue University where he serves as Associate Professor of English. This winter’s misadventures include rescuing his beloved dog Coyote who had fallen through the ice of Deer Creek and—after plunging headfirst into the river together—living to tell the proverbial tale. He is currently teaching a new graduate seminar, Landscape & Literature: Reading and Teaching Texts of the American West, and is this year’s recipient of the Jill Barnum Midwestern Heritage Prize form the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. New poems are forthcoming in a number of literary journals around the country including Karamu, Plainsongs, Sierra Nevada Review, South Dakota Review, and Westview. A second collection of poems, Another Indian Summer, is in the works.
Yes.
Thank you.
Vicki Sievers
--vicki sievers ( victoriasievers@earthlink.net ) from US on 4/14/2008; 9:53:01 PM
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