Tomatoes like plump buttons sit amid the swollen lettuce leaves and a splattery batch of colored peppers, the salty whiff of blue-veined cheese— Such abundance! I think when my friend leans in chin over her iced tea, her eyes blue pearls, and insists God should have taken her, old and childless, and not her neighbor, […]
Yvonne Higgins Leach
Yvonne Higgins Leach, MFA, is the author of Another Autumn (WordTech Editions, 2014). Her poems have appeared in South Dakota Review,South Carolina Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review, among others.She spent decades balancing a career in communications and public relations, raising a family, and pursuing her love of writing poetry. She splits her time living in Vashon and Spokane, Washington. For more information, visit www.yvonnehigginsleach.com.