FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: PIE SIGHS Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words pie and/or sigh, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on March 15th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Pie Sighs will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, March 16th between 3 and 5 pm PDT.

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Mary Langer Thompson

Lemon Power

 

It’s one of those fruits you

can’t take by itself,

can’t even lick its acidic

tartness and tanginess with-

out puckering.

It’s a team player only, and

for more than lemonade.

 

Remember the night you flew

To Vietnam?

We ate your favorite pie made

from not yet mature, green ovals.

The whipped up eggwhite on top

didn’t look quite right.

We nervously laughed and couldn’t

understand why the meringue was

weeping and shrinking,

making the crust wet.

 

When you returned, my bridesmaids

wore yellow, as bright

as our eyes could stand.


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