Peggy Landsman, South Florida, USA
Salad Days
Thanks to Euell Gibbons for Stalking the Wild Asparagus
Dandelion greens
Milkweed pods
I lived alone
In the woods
Daylilies
Solomon's seal
I became one
With the weeds
Few belongings
But that book
The summer
I turned nineteen
Stalking the Wild...
I approached peaches
...Asparagus
Out of my mind
Lovely Milky Way
Lovely Milky Way,
Hold me in your spiral arms.
Keep my planet safe.
Peggy Landsman is the author of a poetry chapbook, To-wit To-woo (Foothills Publishing). Her work has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The Muse Strikes Back (Story Line Press), Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes (C&R Press), Nasty Women Poets (Lost Horse Press), Mezzo Cammin, The Ekphrastic Review, and a previous issue of The Tiger Moth Review. She lives in South Florida where she swims in the warm Atlantic Ocean every chance she gets.
Visit her website:https://peggylandsman.wordpress.com