Tag: hope

  • Up the Staircase Quarterly: The tomatoes had gone

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    kellirule
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    Thank you to Up the Staircase Quarterly for publishing “The tomatoes had gone” in their Winter Issue (#72) alongside the illustration “Rooster of Peace” by Ukrainian artist Josephine Florens (below. ) The tomatoes had gone all fallen, puckered,slick lipstick post-ripe redand I gather them anyway in my green plastic tote. Blue rubber bootson wet pine…