WINTER INTERIOR

Hard pressed

to taste the green 

delirium of spring

even in the coriander

garnish –

Our loose

leafed lives settling,

upswirling, sinking: dregs  

of all the tepid tea we care

to drink.

K. Alma Peterson is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, The New Orphic Review, Skid Row Penthouse, Perihelion Review, qarrtsiluni and others. In 1999, her poem "Between Us" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Rosemount, MN.