Mariah Boone’s most recent poem to appear here was Uprooted (September 2012). Have you noticed we are knee-deep in National Poetry Month?

Speak One Promise
By Mariah Boone
Almost-pink striations of the pinto bean
Are blue-speckled eggs the size of fingernails
Are silvering purple cartography on swelling bellies
Are blue-speckled eggs the size of fingernails
Are silvering purple cartography on swelling bellies