Jane Medved

I prefer synthetic grass
September 26, 2025 Medved Jane

I prefer synthetic grass

 

 

no roots no worm
of tendril fade
of blade no water
needed seep elsewhere
no clover call it weed
already and be done
pesticide rake mower
teenage boy sweat
for five dollars
no suburban hum
back to street cluster
vegetable smells not rot
but linger summer stay
of firefly evening
no little death
of winter resurrection
sticks and bones
take the sun when
you leave please
yesterday a bee flew
low and slow into
my kitchen looking
for a smear of honey lost

Jane Medved is the author of Wayfarers (Grid Books 2024), Deep Calls To Deep (winner of the Many Voices Project, New Rivers Press), and the chapbook Olam, Shana, Nefesh  (Finishing Line Press). Her translation of Wherever We Float, That’s Home (Maya Tevet Dayan) won the Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize (Saturnalia Books 2024) Her work has appeared in the anthologies: Breaking The Glass: Contemporary Jewish Poetry (Greentower Press 2023) and Ache: The Body’s Experience of Religion (Flipped Mitten Press) She is the poetry editor of the Ilanot Review and a visiting lecturer in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv.