Welcome to “Poetry at The Arts Fuse.” A new poem every Thursday.

Early Harvest

She went out into the fields
with her sister and came across the largest bud.
Without thinking, she let out a call:
“Look at this:

it will be
twelve beautiful leaves.”

She plucked it from the air,
and secured it in her pocket

until she had returned home
and mustered the courage
to let the call go
into a steaming pot
where it unfurled:

“It is
intact, but only one.”

Ben Berners-Lee is a Somerville-based poet and social scientist. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication & Cognitive Science.

Note: Hey poets! We seek submissions of excellent poetry from across the length and breadth of contemporary poetics. See submission guidelines here. The arbiter of the feature is the magazine’s poetry editor, John Mulrooney.

— Arts Fuse editor Bill Marx