SURPRISES by Maxine Kumin from “Nurture” published by Penguin Books, 1989. This morning’s red sun licks dew from the hundred California peppers that never set fruit in my Zone-Three garden. After fifteen summers of failure why this year do I suffer the glut of inordinate success? They hang in clustered pairs like newly hatched sex… Continue reading Surprises by Maxine Kumin & a Tribute