Ina Donna Coolbrith

  • Copa de Oro

    (California Poppy)
    THY satin vesture richer is than looms
      Of Orient weave for raiment of her kings!
      Not dyes of olden Tyre, not precious things
    Regathered from the long-forgotten tombs
    Of buried empires, not the iris plumes
      That wave upon the...

  • The Mariposa Lily

    Insect or blossom? Fragile, fairy thing,
    Poised upon slender tip, and quivering
    To flight! a flower of the fields of air;
    A jewelled moth; a butterfly, with rare
    And tender tints upon his downy wing,
    A moment resting in our happy sight;
    A flower...