The Saturday morning market attracted the usual crowd eager for organic vegetables and people watching. My shopping bag was heavy with zucchini, golden beets, white corn, a potato or two, and a paper bag of Cremini mushrooms. The farmer’s market is the best place to buy fig vinegar and some of Sister Sarah’s homemade canned tomatoes. I couldn’t take home much else. Or so I thought. Continue reading
warm bodies
Advice to the Love Lorne: Begin a New Chapter
Appreciate those who eagerly
Await your return
Those whose wet noses
Press against your leg
And whose warm bodies
Find your sleeve.
Don’t lament those who deftly
Cast your feelings aside
In favor of a new town,
A new love, a new adventure
And wander out of your life
As easily as they broke in.
By Victoria Emmons
2011