HILDA WEISS

SPRING ISSUE #12 FEATURED POET

Hilda Weiss is a poet and the co-founder/curator for www.Poetry.LA, a website featuring videos of poets and poetry venues in Southern California. Her poetry manuscript, Seemingly Normal, was a finalist in the National Federation of State Poetry Societies competition. She has a chapbook, Optimism About Trees, and has been published in Bicoastal Review, Rattle, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Poemeleon, and Anti-Heroin Chic among others. A fourth generation Californian, she lives, writes and grows her own vegetables in a garden full of native California plants.

SORREL LEAVES

The memory

of taste—

their wet ribbons,

sour-sweet mouth

of the field.

Something

we hoped for—

the sun

taking up the night.

So many years ago—

and dew still

on our feet