What I Trust

What I trust are things which are themselves:

rose petals, watermelon seeds,

the occasional cloud, one or two people…

Nothing hidden. Nothing taken away.

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Peggy Landsman is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Our Words, Our Worlds (Kelsay Books) and To-wit To-woo (Foothills Publishing). Her poems and short prose pieces appear in many literary anthologies and journals, including Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes (C&R Press), Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press), SMEOP Urban (Black Sunflowers Poetry Press), Bright Flash Literary Review, Mezzo Cammin, The Offing, and Scientific American. She lives in South Florida where she swims in the warm Atlantic Ocean every chance she gets. https://peggylandsman.wordpress.com/