Afternoon in the Greenhouse With Some Surprise Visitors

When I did some repotting of primroses in the greenhouse yesterday I had some visitors! Sweet William and Lily love to explore around the plants and rest in the sunshine. It must seem like a private jungle to them! William is always looking out for his buddy Kit.Out from behind a geranium comes Kit!The next time I grabbed the camera the cats were hiding in the foliage.
Just when I was ready to put the camera away..... Kit appeared again! After all those fun distractions I finally got my primroses ready to put outside.

Celebrating National Poetry Month: #6: Mining Hope

Mining Hope

I am

from the mining town of Kellogg.

Most days I inhaled smelter smoke.

Other days I unknowingly played in lead.

I am the daughter of a Bunker Hill worker

that had to leave work clothes at the Zinc Plant,

and arose each morning with a hacking cough,

but walked the picket line during the long strike.

I am the granddaughter of a woman

unable to breathe in the town she called home.

I am the sister of a man

With crackling,damaged lungs.

I am the daughter of a mother

that survived breast cancer,

but earlier taught handwriting, reading,

and math under the shadow of the smelter smokestack.

I now return

to the Superfund town of Kellogg.

Trees flourish in brilliant green,

water runs clear as the

river winds through town,

air fills with morning freshness.

New soil, new yards, new air,

flowers bloom in hope.

inlandempiregirl , April 2009