And still you asked
about the yellow flowers
those little clusters
blossoming as if in error
twice each year
scentless, semi-feral
it held your attention is it
is it already so late
how late it must be for the yellow
clusters to bloom resistant
shrubs on banks and other
borders yellow restorers
doublers of our years I see
a rod of an almond tree
you quipped by the water
in that fair-seeming september still
you raised your hand to say
such as they blossom in may.
