Cherry Tomatoes
hang in clusters on delicate vines. The plants
are caged, potted in the driveway. All summer
they have drowned in rain and hose water until flowers
became hard green cysts that grew, ripened and split
wide open. I salvage what I can into folded shirt-basket
though I know no one will eat them. Most have fallen
onto rocks below, dots of bloody pulp punctuate stone.
Wasted.
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Photo by Nate Dworsky.
Salzano’s bio can be found here. For more of her poetry at WIZ, go here.
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