Rolled cherry tomatoes ’round,

Picked at the arugula, giraffe
Meat, pushed

The otter heads to form

A centerpiece, I knew

She was mourning

Her mother.

Josh A. Brewer’s writing appears in Natural Bridge; Southeast Rev.; RHINO; Yemassee; Poetry Quarterly; Booth; Poets Against War; Common Ground Rev.; Sargasso, and a publication of the Modern Languages Association.  He’s an associate professor of English at Ivy Tech, Lafayette, and he has taught at Purdue University, University of South Carolina, Tennessee State, Aquinas College, and the University of Miami.