by Terry Trowbridge
Gemologist’s kitchen table:
panoply of tourmalines
spilled between breakfast plates.
The only translucent hues they lack:
browns shimmering in maple syrup.
© Terry Trowbridge
Terry Trowbridge has appeared in The Amazine before. He is thankful to the Ontario Arts Council for funding poetry during the polycrisis.
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