POETS SALON
in my face
the true colors
of the family (by Alicia Viguer-Espert)
– 05/18/22
Hosted by Kathabela Wilson
the bee
still comes to the fallen
jacaranda~ Kathabela
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Drawing by Robert Stewart
Clark Strand
When I considered the American culture I have lived in all my life, there were any number of reasons to believe that, for better or worse, it would keep going along as it has for the foreseeable future. There was a lot wrong with it; still, it seemed rooted more or less stably in its own traditions. But that turned out to be wrong… One day I was gazing at the white blossoms of a camellia bush when one of them suddenly gave a little shiver…and then fell right off onto the ground. It had been on the verge of falling the whole time I stood there gazing at it…and I hadn’t known.
It was shocking.
camellia blossom:
how close it was to falling
while I gazed at it
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White camelia (Photo – Alicia Viguer-Espert)
Alicia Viguer-Espert
after a night
sapping up
resting on the fencein every petal
of my flamenco skirt
a red dancerin my face
the true colors
of the family
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after a night
sapping up
resting on the fence (by Alicia Viguer-Espert)
Nurtured by Nature: Notes and Credits
Clark Strand is the haiku selector and columnist for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. He lives in Woodstock. New York.
Alicia Viguer-Espert is a poet from Spain living in Los Angeles who loves visiting the Huntington Gardens especially in camellia season.
> You will love to visit with Chen-ou Liu, Debbie Strange and Nikolay Grankin, the beauty of our related salon in 2019, “Finding Our Way Home.”
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Thank you for the wonderful Salon …
Everyone’s selections were enjoyed and
re-read ,,, then shared.