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.
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...