LBI Poet's Studio

This group meets the 1st Thursday of every month from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm. You may either join the Zoom event at the LBI Library in the meeting room using our laptops, or you can join from home using your own computer/laptop. Our Prompt for September is to write a poem that uses a word, a phrase, or line from Karina Borowicz's poem, "September Tomatoes."   September Tomatoes by Karina Borowicz   The whiskey stink of rot has settled in the garden, and a burst of fruit flies rises when I touch the dying tomato plants.   Still, the claws of tiny yellow blossoms flail in the air as I pull the vines up by the roots and toss them in the compost.   It feels cruel. Something in me isn’t ready to let go of summer so easily. To destroy what I’ve carefully cultivated all these months. Those pale flowers might still have time to fruit.   My great-grandmother sang with the girls of her village as they pulled the flax. Songs so old and so tied to the season that

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