It's not easy being green...but looking back on a childhood of summers spent on an Audubon preserve is probably not so bad. Lovely ponds and gorgeous flowers peopled my world with frogs and lilypads -- a veritable kingdom of green; but is it altogether Victorian to expect that this world can continue to exist? More in words and images, at blog.amynelsonhahn.info
Guardian mansions
When were you mine, guardian angel,
when were you going
to awaken me from your sleep?
It must've been dangerous and long,
but these are the ways we keep.
I see your silhouette always out afar
and now move over to collect you --
where have you been, good green
mystery -- where have your long
long lashes blown? Have they found
a way back home? You've been swum
completely up the stream and no
mansion leaves you yet behind to find
that unnecessarily you follow
on your own.
(c) Amy Nelson McVeigh 2012
for photos please see 3964, 3972, 3979, 3982, and 3984 at blog.amynelsonhahn.info
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