Poetry by Terry Trowbridge

“Unexplettuce”
             By Terry Trowbridge

One unexpected golden lettuce flower
bolting in false dandelion pride
over greens gone bitter
now attracts honeybees to its mane
of September sunlit surprise pomp

- Terry Trowbridge’s poems have appeared in The New Quarterly, Carousel, Dalhousie Review, Lascaux Review, Kolkata Arts, Leere Mitte, untethered, Snakeskin Poetry, Quail Bell, Nashwaak Review, Orbis, Literary Yard, Gray Sparrow, CV2, Brittle Star, Bombfire, American Mathematical Monthly, Mathematical Intelligencer, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Beatnik Cowboy, PPP, Synchronized Chaos, New Verse News, Siren's Call, Borderless, Literary Veganism, and more. His lit crit has appeared in CJFY, BeZine, Amsterdam Review, Ariel, British Columbia Review, Hamilton Arts & Letters, Episteme, Studies in Social Justice, Rampike, and The /t3mz/ Review. Terry is grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for his first writing grant, and their support of so many other writers during the polycrisis.

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