From Eileen Tabios’ regular column in the St. Helena Star:
New poetry column out. Grateful to @aicassinetto for guest appearance in my column. Her hay(na)ku poem on the intersection of tariffs and roses helped inspire my own poem “The Ferocity of Flowers.”
“A Trade War in Full Bloom” or “In Full Bloom: How to Unpack the Love Language of Perishables as Import Duties Wilt the Fragile Trade of Flowers”
by Aileen Cassinetto
Tariff
cut roses,
disrupt love unseasonably
Aileen Cassinetto 