old carousel horse
a gleam of wildness
in the painted eye
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.
mossy boulder
the softness and hardness
of life
morning walk
at the crossroads
my thoughts
flow
in Spanglish
heat wave
at the big city
flower market
ten thousand shades
of radiant yellow
pioneer museum
the comfort of quilts
made by men
iris season
each plant has its own
shade of purple
wilderness trash heap
all around the broken clock
wild lilies
giant dandelion
just big enough
for three wishes
roadside stand
the vendor eats one berry
from each basket
marsh at dawn
six white egrets
evenly spaced
old porch
the lost art
of sitting still
Renaissance Faire
a knight in armor
hides his cell phone
flowering pear tree
a trail of white petals
tracing the wind
flower market
sunflowers facing
the ocean
silent forest
hikers wear bells
to frighten bears
heat wave
even the windmill
is lazy
just enough silence
to make the crows
scream
boulder
the rock art
of lichens
hawk on an updraft
showing me how
to relax
astronomy book
the Sea of Tranquillity
heavy in my hands
war on the way
I pull enormous weeds
from my tiny garden
holding hands
our blue shadows
touch