By Kelly Keene

There is a tree 

in my yard

that sprouts lemons.

It’s incredible, 

I think, 

because, I cannot 

sprout lemons, myself. 

So I go to this tree,

I depend on it,

for lemons.

But it doesn’t always have them. 

It seems to say, 

when I go out to it,

for lemons, 

that, “we can’t all sprout 

lemons 

all the time.”