The riotous raccoons rifled through the plums,
They would have eaten more, had they thumbs.
The slugs digested while the raccoons held a wake:
Good-bye little plums, sweet as cake.
Joshua Wait studied English at UC Berkeley. He wrote his undergraduate thesis on the relationship between art and
poetry in the New York School. He received a Masters in Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. He has served in programs for children, youth, and college students, in an organization addressing climate change, and in the tech industry as a CTO. He currently divides his time between his family and his artistic practice.
