npm2020: poetry videos day 14 "Squeeze"

My National Poetry Month Project 2020 is to record a short video each day in April featuring me presenting my published poems.  For poetry lovers of all ages!

The title poem from my first book, and one of the many that started with words from the mouth of a young child: lemon heaven lemon heaven lemon heaven...

Squeeze

                                   

Wherever you are

is somewhere sour or sweet—

a lemon heaven

full of juice to squeeze.

Some days sting

and others pour like sugar

from your spoon.

This lemon heaven isn’t high or blue  

but here, and yellow,

and you,

only you,

are holding it in your hand.