1 Poem by J.R. Solonche

BOTANICAL GARDEN

 If yellow is the color of joy,

then here is joy enough

for a city of the miserable.

If red is love’s color,

then here is red enough

for all the cups of the loveless.

Bionote

Four-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee J.R. Solonche has been publishing poems in magazines, journals, and anthologies since the early 70s. He is coauthor of PEACH GIRL: POEMS FOR A CHINESE DAUGHTER (Grayson Books) and author of BEAUTIFUL DAY, forthcoming from Deerbrook Editions.