“Neighborly,” by Martha Rhodes

Poetry faculty member Martha Rhodes was recently featured in the Los Angeles Review. Read an excerpt of “Neighborly” below:

Neighborly

We invited them over, from their fields to ours.
To join us naked and playful, to give them
Hope. To watch us joyfully trample our own lands—
And witness the greening anew overnight.
Our fields. Paid for, no mortgages—
To join us in and outside of our tents of celebration,
And share our jungles and waterfalls.

Read the rest of this poem here: http://losangelesreview.org/neighborly-martha-rhodes/