- - Ode to a Cantaloupe Ripe woman so long in the sun, skin thick, leathery, with veins etched like filigree scars of knowing, one flat c...

- - Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) has been one of my top five or so poets for inspiration since I discovered poetry and began writing in colleg...

- - Ode to Garlic In the harbor of autumn the husbandman thumbed gondola-shaped cloves into the dirt. They slept under snow moons....

- - quinoa seeds If you came from One Stop Poetry for the One Shot Wednesday poem, it's at the end. (Of course you're welcome to r...