Sara Fitzpatrick Comito

Flouting austerity
 
bletted medlars, persimmon, past-abetted,
custard apple from earnest pollen
 
Quixote’s straw is ingenuity,
sapote Nahuatl largess
 
parsimonious the service tree
that does the thing itself
 
sorghum is more sober
with no such calyx flares
 
teff, demure
in its magnanimity
 
hops were wrested to conspiracy
despite all lofty hopes
 
nothing yet to come from soil
except those things that come from it
 
 
 
 
Sara Fitzpatrick Comito is a poet living in Fort Myers, Florida. Her work has been seen or is upcoming in places like Short, Fast, and Deadly; The Smoking Poet; Anemone Sidecar and Radioactive Moat. She is editor of the online lit and art journal Orion headless.
 



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