Grim was the grade, but The Grove's up there
with promise of pastry and coffee.
And fool's defiance was fairly repaid--
of inclement sky, no showers but clouds
ridge-creeping from the coastside (a soggy
day no doubt in Pescadero)
heavy-laden and drippy-leaking...
But Iris spread her arc: the full spectrum
of visible light, red to violet,
crowning the hilltop community college.
