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Meet Virginia's Poets Special from The Poetry Society of Virginia Joanne Scott Kennedy, of Toano, member of the Poetry Society of Virginia and the Williamsburg Poetry Guild, grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. She began to write after raising a large family and working as reference librarian and book reviewer. The poem below appeared in her chapbook, The Edge of the Woods. The Last Green Tomato ...hangs tight and shiny-hard, too late- born to plump and pink beneath July’s blaze-hand and eye like summer's rapid, rosy fruits. Long on a weary vine, days short, cool, shadowed by an ending... not making it to red before first frost and coming dark. I'll cup you, pungent from your shriveling foliage, in the shelter of my hand...white- green, lonesome, laggard one... stubbled wheat fields, leaf fires smoldering in the streets. © The Poetry Society of Virginia, 2006 For information about The Poetry Society of Virginia, go to www.poetrysocietyofvirginia.org, or write to: Poetry Society of Virginia, P.O. Box 35160, Richmond, Virginia 23235. |
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