Dutchman's Breeches and the Bookman in Grand Haven, MI

I will be at the Bookman in Grand Haven MI on May 1 declaiming poems and showing a few of my watercolors.  I will be at the Bookman again on June 20 at 6-8 pm with my new book, Between Sweetwater and Sand.  See you there.

Dutchmans Breeches

Delicate dances in strong April winds

blowing off Lake Michigan—

Delicate wild flowers grow

Under tall pines

Under high sand dunes

Called Rosy Mound.

Tiny white wild

Flowers tremble on green stems

Dance amid lacey green leaves.

They are called Dutch mans breeches.

Did Dutch men ever dance like this?

                                        --Barbara Spring