museum colors April 1.08

today
colors surprised me
at the museum
in the middle of the day
i walked the halls
gazing at colorful
degas
and van gogh
me and twenty old bureacrat's wives

then i sat
in japanese garden
and stared with closed eyelids
into
the sudden sun

a friend
and i shared a table
with the declining sun
in the early evening
in georgetown

we strolled to the park
and the changing sky
with baby blue clouds
moved rapidly
above our heads

while gigantic
white cherry blossom
trees
contrasted
the vast darkness of trees

amongst those
large trees
and open field
i felt
my childhood