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In Line at Eden, 1989 | Adriana Stimola | 1st Place Poetry Contest Winner

I remember buying basil

with my mother. At the counter

I swam in time too small

for weekday nets to catch—

where it’s wrists wearing mollusk lips,

bags on hips, soft denim calling

for rectangle touches. And above

where most things matter,

here they don’t—there’s a spider

making spiders in the corner

underneath the cash box—

it’s only what’s for dinner

and how spicy now the air is.

Not, Someday, I’ll grow my own

and I’ll remember all the songs

that we forgot and try to take

you with me—but I will.

In this stratum, in line, at Eden

I can blindly hold the hand

that’s near my ear and smell the day,

before it’s anything more than now.

 

Adriana Stimola (she/her) is a non-fiction literary agent, mother and writer. Her poetry has been featured in numerous publications, including: the Santa Clara Review, the San Pedro River Review, Driftwood Press, Harbor Review and Soundings East. She was awarded an Honorable Mention in the New Millennium Writings 53rd poetry contest, and she lives on an island off the cape of Massachusetts.

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