Poetry and Beauty for Friday, May 2, 2003

Everywhere in the Northwest, Photolia grows. It is a most versatile plant. It can be a shrub sitting by itself, A hedge that is cut formally or not at all. In my yard, it is a thick privacy screen. Red and green leaves, red when they are new Green as they mature. Thick and shapeless left to itself.... Sign in to see full entry.

The sunlight peeks out of the thick clouds And focuses on a red rhodedendron, with buds just ready to bloom. The tulips are almost gone, their red petals just memories of former beauty. Red pops out of a picture of green. Green grass, green leaves, green mold on the patio trellis. Decorators call it... Sign in to see full entry.