Today's Subway Poem, 6/19/12

I only discovered, shortly after writing this & per The New York Times, that the hydrangea is the official flower of Bay Ridge. Who knew?

 Subway Poem #6

fecund lawns of summer

meet me.

stairway ascendant to street,

down the pavement,

i move

past hydrangeas

exploded on circular bushes

petals purple and pink

on well-tended lawns

smelling of wet grass, of soil.

from the tunnel, away from the salt

of the earth,

a long journey 

to the fertile margins

home.