October's Featured Poet is
Jane Edna Mohler
Feast
I love the fat of summer, flabby
green weeks when weeds lap
over the vague rims of back
roads, just as batter overtakes
a griddle. Poplar leaves wave
wide as cows’ tongues slurping
syrup-thick air. Here, summer spits
when it talks, gulps cold milk
and wipes a hand across its mouth.
I want to stuff myself full
with warm fields, hills tender
and round as yeast rolls bathed
in butter. Oh to scoop the ooze
of June’s soft eggs, consume
this season, lick its juices, chew
salty bacon days.
One Art: A Journal of Poetry first publication September 3, 2023
Jane Edna Mohler | jane.e.mohler@gmail.com | www.janeednamohler.com
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