Stepping Outside The Lawn Club
May 9, 1997
Holding my fists together to show
what I mean by big, I ask Marion,
the woman who sweeps the green clay
courts after each tennis match,
how I can find viridian artichokes
to stuff. Go right and around the corner
to De Rose's Grocery, where she buys
strawberries the size of pullet eggs -
an hour of labor for a taste of spring.