STIRRING MINDS

Will the Silicon Valley poets

of the distant future speak

of the fruits that grew, grow

here: apricots, grapefruit, lemons,

nectarines, oranges, peaches?

Or will commerce envelop

them in entrepreneurism,

as technical adventures

thrill their stirring minds?

Will this poem be techno-

retrograde, or reactionary?


Will they mention my wife

Carolin’s ashes in the garden

of St. Mark’s, Santa Clara?

 (21 APR 12, Santa Clara CA)v3

asleep somewhere 

under a blanket of leaves

but not forgotten

© 2012 Sandy Vrooman

Stirring the earth,

deep in her sunny plot, until

apricots, grapefruit, lemons,

nectarines, oranges, peaches

bloom & burst with new Word,

new fruit, delicate, divine.


- Julia Ball

(23 APR 12 Palo Alto CA)