Amy Miller’s work has appeared in Many Mountains Moving, Crab Orchard Review, Alehouse, ZYZZYVA, and other journals. She has worked as a trail guide and horseback riding instructor, photographer’s assistant, electronic assembler, health-food store bookkeeper, and ad salesperson. She currently edits trivia books in Ashland, Oregon, which has not one, but two farmers’ markets.
I bought tomatoes
at the farmer’s market.
They were muddy
and ripe, red sugar-bombs
in the brown blank
of almost-December, lying there
as if summer had left
her open lips carelessly on a bench,
loud love-letters
dripping behind a small white sign,
two-ninety-nine a pound.
Such good, red omens,
so many salads
to come.