THE IDEA OF RUBY SEEDS.....................................................................................................................LORRAINE HENRIE LINS

The Idea of Ruby Seeds

Poem by Lorraine Henrie Lins

We left the pomegranates to leather in the back of the fridge, unrounded withering thumping hollow against the carton of milk each morning when breakfast was through— a whim during Christmas week when I thought the idea of ruby seeds knocked into champagne flutes or over dense, white yogurt would indulge but each morning the coffee was enough hot and strong.

Lorraine Henrie Lins is a Pennsylvania county Poet Laureate and author of four books of poetry, most recently 100 Tipton. She serves as the Director of New and Emerging Poets with Tekpoet and am a founding member of the “No River Twice” improvisational poetry troupe. Her work appears in publications and collections, and a small graffiti poster in Australia. Born and raised in the suburbs of Central New Jersey, this self-professed Jersey Girl now resides just outside of Philadelphia where she has learned to pump her own gas and order a cheesesteak.....wit.