Peach Pit Promise

PEACH PIT PROMISE

HOUSTON • THIRD WARD • 2004

The storm took the jars at 0400.

But the pit remained.

I did not sweep the glass. I did not sweep the shards. I poured the seam through the very crack that broke the pot.

THE OATH OF THE FRUIT

From the pit that survived the fire, we shall raise the orchard that drinks the supernova.