Featured Poet : Sidney Hall Jr., Brookline
 Sidney Hall Jr. is a poet and a publisher. He is the owner of Hobblebush Books in Brookline, New Hampshire. His poems have appeared in journals such as the Graham House Review, Chattahoochie Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Hollins Critic, and many others, and in anthologies, and his poems and book reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Times Book Review and on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He is the author of two books of poems: What We Will Give Each Other, and Chebeague; and a book of memoirs, Small Town Tales, a collection of his newspaper columns. He also a typographer and book designer.
Of this week's featured poem, Sid writes:
"I wrote the poem Strawberries when I was moving into a little cabin at Point Reyes in California, to try to write for a week. I had stopped at a highly recommended farm on the way there to buy some fruit, and many of the poems I wrote that week were about fruit."
Strawberries
The strawberries are as
delicious as fire.
With milk and honey
they are like a lover,
mad, wild, foolish,
full of glee,
spotted, smooth,
sweet, a childish wine.
I bought them beside the road
from a Vietnamese farmer.
I tasted one and then
went back to his counter
and picked out two
more baskets.
He ducked
behind a wall
and quietly pulled
two extra of his best strawberries
and placed them on top
of my baskets
where I had to hold them on
with my thumbs.
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