Chayote
Like other gourds / chayote has a sprawling habit / and should only be planted if / there is plenty of room in the / garden.
Kathleen Ossip
Kathleen Ossip is the author of The Cold War, The Search Engine, and Cinephrastics. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Washington Post, The Believer, A Public Space, and Poetry Review (London). She teaches at The New School in New York.