Today is Bastille Day and Day 588 of the daily poems. I was backing Jasmine Paolini to win the Ladies’ Singles at Wimbledon, but she was edged out by Barbora Krejcikova. Still,”second comes right after first”, and I can still call on her to celebrate our own Jasmine in our Wivenhoe courtyard garden (small back yard) …
Jasmine
jasmine is winding through her form
caressing her bosom and her throat –
a bustle of roses, soft and warm,
bestows on Jasmine an elegant note.
Peter Ualrig Kennedy
