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Ruth Asher

Ruth Asher's work has been published in Canada’s Nashwaak Review, Fieldstone, and The Prairie Journal. Her publication in the United States includes journals from Texas A&M, University of Texas, and Rogers State University. She has written three chapbooks, Inside Yesterday, Elephant of Japan, and Entitled to Fall. She has spent half of her life living in Canada and loving Black labs.

PoetrySeptember 20, 2016

Ambitious Agriculturalist

By Ruth Asher

Do anything, but let it produce joy. Walt Whitman the tomato farmer’s wife waits for seed babies in Mariachi windows rad warmed roots thinned    …

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