Lisa Jarnot

Lisa Jarnot is the author of five collections of poetry including Joie De Vivre: Selected Poems 1992-2012 (City Lights). She lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, with her husband and daughter and works as a freelance gardener.

A Things

Anger, aubergine, apricot syrup,
transform the first to the third
to the sound of the automobile
outside in autumn with the
angering noise of the bodega
idlers, again, in September.
Think of August and...