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.

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.