I am pleased to present my new novel:

What happens when the war is everywhere--including home?

Summer 2010.

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Michael Cadnum          

Sour Grass


Oxalis with its flowers,
the yellow blooms on long,
nodding stalks the traditional yield
of rainy season in our town.
Sour grass is a weed, however
celebrated, stubborn
champion of the curb
and the shabby lots

where buildings have been torn down
and nothing else constructed.
I pick two stems and I bring them home,
one for you and one for me,
because I associate these flowers with
good luck, and with the passing
of another season,
you alive, and me alive

with you.  And we each bite a bitter
stalk and as ever make a mild joke,
that it tastes awful,
another sour year,
but this particular
warm winter day
you are weary with pneumonia

and the radiance of day
that falls through the window
illuminates the blossoms
as I fill a vase with fortune
and trim the bitten,
slender stems so they will fit.