Homegrown Mint
By Kasia Pater
Homegrown Mint
The stem was honey-suckle sweet
Supple and bright, tall as a weed.
Past lilies bedding, he caught her upper
Stirring molasses in horn-rim glasses
For potluck supper.
Her voice trailed with a morning glory
As they were walking, they started talking
The greenhouse story.
Mint's cooling scent freed up the hungry vine
No longer sleeping, it sprung up leaping
And clamped entwined.
He let it harden in herbal garden
Behind the mower, then whiffed the lower.
About the author:
Kasia Zupinadze Pater, a native of Poland, once an English major at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, later received her degree in Communications from the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Recently, she matriculated as a Bluegrasser through an eighteen-year-old tenure on a small farm in the Bluegrass area of Kentucky; where she lives with her husband, son and daughter. She calls Lexington home now. A strong arts supporter continues administrating her husband's art studio while writing and translating. "Language is a big part of assimilation process for an immigrant. That's why I write in English. However, writing in your second language is like driving under influence. You do it but you can't say you are fully responsible."
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