SWEET CHERRIES
cherry berry tree
first they are yellow
then they are red
you eat them
and then they are dead
but you spit out the pit
and it grows again
and then you eat them all over again
—from 2018 Rattle Young Poets Anthology
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Why do you like to write poetry?
Greta Geriguis: “I like to write, and I like the sound of rhyming words.”