Praise for Colewort (green leafy plant of the species Brassica)

Patti Ross

Hallowed the scent of pig’s feet

Lining street corners mowed

with empty-bellied hounds

forestalling fate of roadkill

Croon to wet basements

poverty’s stench where clothes hang

evading theft and downpour

Glade tames the damp and vermin

Revere relief of anxiety

the fragrance of peace

Hallelujah!

Holy are the Collard greens

Patti Ross graduated from Washington, DC's Duke Ellington School for the Performing Arts and
The American University. After graduation, she had a brief career in the arts and several of her
journalist pieces were published in the Washington Times and the Rural America newspapers.
Patti has rediscovered her love of writing and is sharing her voice as the spoken word artist
"little pi." Her debut chapbook, St. Paul Street Provocations, will be released in 2021 by Yellow
Arrow Publishing. She currently serves on the Board for the Maryland Writers Association, as
well as several other non-profit organizations in the Baltimore region. Patti lives in Ellicott City,
MD. You can follow her blog at: https://littlepisuniverse.wordpress.com and
https://www.facebook.com/ecpoetryandprosemic