Pagosa Springs Artists

The Grass

Brightly lime,
firefly green,
spun of silk
without a seam    

Home to toads,
worms and beetles,
holding stories
of seeds and  nettles

 Glowing flow
 spread under trees,
 floor of the sky
 swept by a breeze

 

first published in the WRITERS’ Journal 

 

© 2003 Bonnie Manion

 
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