Irises
ladies gathered for
a garden tea and gossip
irises in bloom
And in the summer breeze these now beige irises seem to nod and whisper, and if you listen
Author: Larry Kimmel
Larry Kimmel was born in 1940, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Pittsburgh University, and has worked at everything from steel mills to libraries. He now lives quietly in the hills of western Massachusetts. He has 10 collections of poetry, a novella, a book of short stories and a number of other works of prose combined with poetry.
inch by inch
the inchworm goes
by the book