May Theilgaard Watts at the Indiana Dunes State Park October 1957. Photographer unknown.
To-day there have been lovely things I never saw before: Sunlight through a jar of marmalade; A blue gate; A rainbow In soapsuds on dishwater; Candlelight on butter; The crinkled
smile of a little girl Who had new shoes with tassels; A chickadee on a thorn-apple; Empurpled mud under a willow, Where white geese slept; White ruffled curtains sifting moonlight On the scrubbed kitchen floor; The under side of a white-oak leaf Ruts in the road at sunset; An egg yolk in a blue bowl.
My love kissed my eyes last night.
May Theilgaard Watts (1893-1975). "Vision". The Step- Ladder edited by Flora Warren Seymour. Chicago : Order of Bookfellows. (1925).