for Sara                   


boat fountain

she has the strong thin body of an obelisk
rounded and tall like Traian's column
from boat fountain to fountain
her soul's the invisible sail
her smiles
are stone baroque style waves
we all float on



march 2002

girasole        class

Salisbury Cathedral

through Salisbury Cathedral Sara is shining
black, beautiful, smooth, tall and slender
her stem-like columns call light inside
pouring from high bright windows

elegantly rising in layers she's a ladder of prayers
Sara's sweet round eyes rosewindows in wonder
and you would find that under
her vault mankind'd be sheltered

along with those most wrongly jailed
under her horizon-wide spread veil
glittering and hanging from the highest spire
you would admire - beauty and compassion