ROSES| Lucille Lang Day

No need to write about
the dozen peach-colored roses
in a transparent vase
on a chest of drawers
sitting on a red tile floor
in a bright green room in Mexico.

They appeared yesterday—
a gift, but not meant
especially for me.
I looked into the window
of the room next door
and saw a dozen pink ones.

Still, a gift is a gift,
so I will accept their sweet breath
rippling through my room
as firecrackers announce
la Natividad de San Juan Bautista,
shadows lengthen on cobblestones,
fiesta music rises
and night's dark petals fall.