Where We Live

Here she is again, in closeup, the Blue Witch. 

Here she is a landscape plant seen on the Daily Walks. 

But she,or a close relative grows as a a native in nearby parks and reserves. 

She is a member of the large and important plant family called Solanaceae, 

which includes many cultivated plants such as tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, 

tobacco and chili peppers. 

Many are listed and discussed in the Wikipedia article on the plant family.

AGAIN

Life has a repetitious feel,

continuing the yearly progression

                                      of one's history

                                in one place

                      change is subtle

                                     sometimes hardly noticed

                 and then a large gasp,

                               someone is gone, forever

                        The migrating flocks return

                the coast range changes color,

                   monarchs come back...

                       restless surface

                                   watching the minutes'

                     

                     Not too much happens       strands

                              of consciousness

                                     strands of dreams

                  precious, rare and mundane

                                                    where we live

                                  --Joanne Kyger

From: Again

Poems 1989-2000

(La Alameda Press, 2001)

I found this poem yesterday on a gift bookmark in a book 

I was putting away. The poem was printed as a gift 

from Poetry Flash, 

early in this century, perhaps near the time when 

there was all that fuss about Y2K.

It is printed in brown on pale brown cardstock.

I've just looked at the current Poetry Flash on 

the web. It is very handsome and a good resource

for poets in California and far beyond.

I like the way the words in this poem

are placed on the page; I also like

the Californianess of this poem.