STILL LEARNING

I want to eat a fig
off your tree,

but I don’t know 
how to eat a fig.

Besides, which tree is yours?

Linzi Garcia is the author of Thank You (Spartan Press, 2018) and co-author of Live a Great Story (Analog Submission Press, 2019) and While Away: Travel Poems (Spartan Press, 2022). She resides in Emporia, Kansas, where she serves as the publicist and poetry manager for Meadowlark Press. Linzi is a recipient of a 2023 NextGen Under 30 Kansas Award.