Tasting Ojai

—Sunset Magazine, April 2007

From the moon's blue sky, manna falls

kumquats, tangerines, orange-sauce ceviche

olive oil drops like rain

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smell a stalk of lavendar

cup an avocado in your hand

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come winter, come frozen night

in fog, come drink the grape

tug on its green-glass vine

Waits-Mast Poetry Collection, 2009