Shades of Color

recent garden news:
our tenth homegrown salad meal, 
lupines, lilies, love

Grounded

begonia angel:
perfect wings and hollow center
symbol of my life

yoga, gardening:
life skills and English practice
midsummer dream

surrounded by blooms
(yet the reality kills)
as they slowly die

eighteen long months late,
we celebrate our friendship
of thirty short years

she survived COVID
now, we're both vaccinated
to celebrate love

what a perfect place
green grounds, infinity pool
for endless friendship

summer garden joys:
second of many salads
grown and cut by me

family tradition:
plant trees for graduates
and watch how they grow

my mother's tree stands
at my great-aunt's former home
taller than us all

my sister's tree shades
disappearing middle-class 
(our childhood home)

and my tree shocks me
evading the ash borer
with grandiose grace

what you don’t see here:
picking rhubarb in the rain
for salvation pie

the best time of year
is strawberry-rhubarb pie
(yes, it's a season)

baked by my daughter
the sweet and sour combo
shines as bright as spring

a midnight rainstorm
brought early this raging creek
and stole seed-planting

yet, cycle views burst
with blossoms of spring color
saving the lost day