This Week's Highs

1. Kaya's poetry reading day.
(Poem below.)

2. Janae's garden lettuce.
(Is that the most amazing green color? It made me want to eat it AND put it in a little bouquet.)

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"The Earliest Evening"

by Kaya,

Winter 2010

Frost quietly sings hush,

Turning the doves invisible.

Vanilla ice cream petals turn

The fields cool white.

It is the earliest evening,

With silently drifting snow

And a tossed bitter gray sky.

Now, millions of marshmallow dreams

Suddenly resume.

The beautiful frosty color of

The fields and sky and the evening wind

Have stirred them.

Smell the warm snow

Like ice cream trees.

The bitter gray sky falls to white

And the earliest day blossoms,

Shining, Singing.