In the Vegetable Garden by Martha Christina

Signs of your presence,
and your absence: ID tags
in your handwriting, cold
frames and raised beds
built by your hands, new
lettuces, old okra, peas
and green beans, new
blossoms, old pods.

Along the shore, among
the rosa rugosa, perfect
explosions of bittersweet.



Martha Christina is a frequent contributor to Brevities. Longer work appears in Innisfree Poetry Journal, Naugatuck River Review, earlier postings of Red Eft Review, and most recently in Star 82 Review, and Crab Orchard Review. She has published two collections: Staying Found (Fleur-de-lis Press) and Against Detachment (Pecan Grove Press).