Wednesday, June 30, 2010

CALIFORNIA MARIGOLDS




MARY’S GOLD
(Flowers once offered as coins to the Virgin)

Driving down the highway
an orange line on the horizon
becomes a field of marigolds,
rows and rows of blooms
planted to parent blossoms
around the world.

And now in June they create
a California gold rush.


Saturday, June 26, 2010

DUBLIN BUBBLES






EFFERVESCENCE

On a promenade in downtown Dublin
a sorcerer stirs sticks and string in suds--
bubbles wobble forth, but burst.
A girl chases one after another,
giggles, jumps, reaches—
rapt in wonder.