Kate Lebo

Kate Lebo is the author of the essay collection The Book of Difficult Fruit, the cookbook Pie School, the poetry chapbook Seven Prayers to Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and co-editor, with Samuel Ligon, of Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter & Booze. She lives in Spokane, Washington.

Poetry – Issue 32

Rose of Sharon (or, Sonnet Missing Two Lines Because the Baby Has a Cold)

Not dead, not beautiful, not afire, / this bush—so, no God. No alarms, either. / In the heat its blooms hang like rags, tired / as Mary’s first Christmas.