Zucchini Poem
the zucchini crouches
behind a broad green leaf
patient in her camouflage
imperialist tentacles of vine
are taking over the garden
shouting mine mine
like a woman waiting
for the revolution
the zucchini bides her time
rain falls in the night
first stealthy
then triumphant like a coup d'état
come morning
the zucchini squats
swollen in the sunlight
proud of her belly
covering the earth
with a yellow flower behind her ear
Elizabeth Zelvin is a writer living in New York who has poems appearing in Womanspirit and 13th Moon. She has recently completed a book about an alternative marriage, and among her other interests are "singing and song-writing, teaching creative movement, and trying to understand the synthesis of anarchism and feminism."