Literary Tuesday

The sweet little poem I chose for this week is one of my favorites. I think it would be lovely screen printed on a pillow.  Hmm...

It is by Edna St. Vincent Millay.  I remember choosing to do a report in high school on the writer purely because I thought her name was cool.

The pictures were taken by my sister and me on two separate trips to one of the places I love best in this world - Whidbey Island.

Afternoon on a Hill

I will be the gladdest thing

  Under the sun!

I will touch a hundred flowers

  And not pick one.

I will look at cliffs and clouds

  With quiet eyes,

Watch the wind bow down the grass,

  And the grass rise.

And when lights begin to show

  Up from the town,

I will mark which must be mine,

  And then start down!

~Edna St. Vincent Millay