Beautification Committee Installed the 20th street Marigold Garden

In St. Louis Place soil,

the marigolds are only whispers now—

green promises curled beneath spring rain.

Be patient, pollinators,

bright-winged wanderers of the neighborhood.

The blossoms are waking slowly,

stretching toward warm afternoons

and long golden evenings.

Soon these streets will hum with color,

petals lit like little suns,

and you will find your feast waiting

along 20th Street,

where the hands that planted hope

are calling spring to bloom.