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| Image provided by Laura Rodley |
Maroon
In cranberry bogs, berries emerge as
green dots of life, swell into maroon berries
like fields of heather in Scotland,
the maroon resting, muted, swelling until
September, when the fields are flooded
and cranberries rise to the top,
necklaces of vitamin C. Along 6A
in Sandwich, a pair of regal swans
swim on the reservoir that floods
the fields, undisturbed by the back-to-back
traffic. They dip their heads to each
other, form a heart, mated for life
as they are. Where do they go
when the gates are released
and the reservoir floods the bogs?
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| Laura Rodley |
Pushcart Prize winner Laura Rodley's latest books are Turn Left at Normal by Big Table Press, Counter Point by Prolific Press, and Ribbons and Moths Poems for Children, winner of the Children's Nonfiction International Book Award and medalist for the Moonbeam Book Award for Children's Poetry.
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