Tova Kranz
Tidal Spring Redux
The sun is high already: the sky
cloudless blue with the crisscross contrails,
the sun glints off passenger planes and C-130s.
Garden, mound of woodchips, and palm trees glow.
The moon is faint and shimmers over
a live oak branch; over the pluff mud
the moon is a shrinking wedge drawing water
back over the tidal river banks. Leaves and ripening
seed pods of arugula fling themselves from
trellises. The mud and the mist and the morning all say
the same thing: you are here, now
act like it.
Tova Kranz earned degrees from Florida State University and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and has appeared in Blue Heron Review and 86 Logic, among others. She writes about farming and growing on Substack.