purplehaze
City Give
Five days ago struck by beauty
I stopped my bike and gaped
at the yellows and pinks and lavenders and
blues and purples and whites
sprinkled across the glowing green growing
a great big kiss of sun on this fecund now.
Today walking back from working dirt
weeding watering our garden plot
I pointed to the expanse
of monochrome fresh mown no-flower green
and described what I had seen.
No sadness.
City let flowers grow.
City mows.
Move on to next gasp waiting down the road
grasping glad in hand.
– Smith, 6.19.2014
nature by Lady top & Smith bottom