ZARAGOSA VILLAGERS

                                    These flowers, when touched,

                                    Close up, and only slowly

                                    Show themselves again.

 

                                    How dry the roads here!

                                    Vendors plod home with their carts.

                                    Coins clink as they walk.

 

                                    Paths have long shadows.

                                    Fishermen wet with their catch;

                                    Youth dressed up for town.

 

                                    I know by your eyes

                                    That you've seen whales in the bay--

                                    So filled with wonder!

 

                                            -- C.S. Cholas   March 31, 1984 
                                            Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico