Proud purple
shifting shades
of red
Hugging clean green leaves
tucked in sandy bed
Pumped up
with summer sun
just fresh
from rain
I kneel
to bend
and pluck
fistfuls
and drift
Into that picker’s dream
of jelly jars
and old-time
kitchen smells
That linger
on the edge
so precious
and so real
Steve Ewing is a dock builder, living in Edgartown with his wife Claudia. Steve is the town’s first
poet laureate.