Cut daffodils
Easy sacrifices for our table

Paper thin delicacies
Sweet as amaretto shots

In this fleeting Russian Orthodox
Day

The JESUS prayer intoned
Too late

Juxtaposition of light & shadow

Fall on these words
Exquisite light

The sun she welcomes us,
Slavic survivors of wars
And winter

We all gasp at her
Power and beauty

Harmony -this melody
of morning.