heat wave
at the big city
flower market
ten thousand shades
of radiant yellow
Author: Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of young adult novels in verse, including The Surrender Tree, which received the first Newbery Honor ever awarded to a Latino. Her most recent book is Hurricane Dancers, the First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck.
morning walk
at the crossroads
my thoughts
flow
in Spanglish
mossy boulder
the softness and hardness
of life
old carousel horse
a gleam of wildness
in the painted eye