Big thanks to Nilavronill Shoovro, Stacia Lynn Reynolds
 and the Editorial Team at Our Poetry Archive for publishing
this poem in their January issue:

https://ourpoetryarchive.blogspot.com/2018/01/linda-imbler.html

BLACK-EYED PEAS

(A Sonnet)

A bowl full of luck for New Year’s Day

black-eyed peas steaming off the stove

add a dash of pepper sauce

or maybe some ketchup

It’s a Southern thing

superstition

but I can’t

let it

go.