Monastery Grapes by Terry Trowbridge

Every grape cluster a song

the rachis the length of measures

each peduncle a point on the staff,

each Summer bearing fulsome melodies.

Those devoted to choir practice

(choristers who tend vineyards

in habits and hoods) consume music

then return it to the clouds.

Terry Trowbridge is a Canadian plum farmer and PhD candidate in Socio-Legal Studies. His poems have appeared in The New Quarterly, Carousel, subTerrain, paperplates, The Dalhousie Review, untethered, The Nashwaak Review, Orbis, Snakeskin Poetry, M58, CV2, Brittle Star, Lady Lazarus Experimental Poetry, The American Mathematical Monthly, Canadian Woman Studies, The Mathematical Intelligencer, The Canadian Journal of Family and Youth, Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, The Beatnik Cowboy, Borderless Magazine, Fine Lines, and many, many more. His lit crit has appeared in Ariel, Hamilton Arts & Letters, Episteme, Studies in Social Justice, Rampike, and The /t3mz/ Review.