Midweek Short: "Ripe with Riches is the Swollen World"

My latest publication is a poem, “The Hard-skinned Fruit,” in the spring California Quarterly, just out - a kaleidoscope of California poetry and beyond. I’m delighted to share from this publication of the California State Poetry Society, the state affiliate of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies.

Ripe with riches is the swollen world / ready to be pierced