Yellow Mama E zine

Lemons and Oranges

 

by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

 

Overripe lemons and oranges

fall on yellow grass as October

presents a full moon and sparse

clouds across the dark night.

 

In bunches the lemons and

oranges fall on the sad, wilted

grass. In the house the owner

has fallen into depression.

 

Hand and hand the owner and

his late wife would tend to 

the lemon and orange tree.

 

Not one of them was wasted, 

just like their love for each other,

that died the day the wife died.

 

 

        Luis lives in California and works in Los Angeles. His poetry, art, and photography have appeared in Black Petals, Blue Collar Review, Kendra Steiner Editions, Medusa's Kitchen, Rogue Wolf Press, Venus in Scorpio Poetry Journal, and Yellow Mama Webzine.