Amorak Huey
The Peach Tree in the Center of the Compost Pile
For years we waited,
or so I remember.
One peach a year, or two, maybe, or four,
each the size of a toddler's fist
and pebble-hard.
More stone than flesh.
O broken promises.
O gnarled-limb
black-bark
twisted-trunk
test-of-faith.