The second day of June a friend visits, come to help in the garden. She bears a gift— two chicken of the woods fungi wrapped in yards of cling plastic, in which her hiking companion would have mummified them. With the urgency of breath I unwound them, exposing them to air, where they seemed to […]
Ruth Weinstein
Ruth Weinstein is an octogenarian organic gardener and has lived a back -to the-land life with her husband in the Arkansas Ozarks (the hunting and trapping lands of the Osage and Quapaw people) for nearly fifty years. Her poetry has been published in print and in online journals. In February 2020, Stockton University Press (Galloway, N.J.) published her family history/memoir of her first eighteen years: BACK TO THE LAND: Alliance Colony to the Ozarks in Four Generations. She has been declared third place winner in the 2022 Miriam Rachimi Micro Chapbook Poetry Prize, sponsored by Poetica Publishing for her entry, “The Legendary Tomatoes of New Jersey.”