A pint of raspberries rests
in the lap of a pint-sized child.
Lolling in her stroller, she’s
living in the lap of luxury.
“Don’t eat them,” Mom says,
as the little one begins eating,
two-handed, two-fisted,
too much; we laugh until
we grow red as raspberries.
The poems here are from Mike’s series Cornucopia.
Mike Hazard is a filmmaker, photographer, and poet. Nine of his films have been broadcast nationally on public media; two hundred twenty-eight play on social media. His work is in many museums, including MoMA (NY). A collection of Hazard’s poems about people, This World Is Not Altogether Bad, was published by Red Dragonfly Press. Hazard likes to say, “Everything I make is a love story.” To learn more, visit www.mikehazard.org.
