The bloom above is found on the Thorny Kapok, commonly known as the Cotton Silk Tree. Here's what some look like in the Caribbean:
http://www.stjohnbeachguide.com/Kapok.htm




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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Posthumous Pardon




Churlish, and tickles ironic-bone
even to say the words together, aloud. A lot of good
it does Lena Baker, fried in '45,
a first in Jawja. So here we are,
and the state decides
to believe her 60 years
late. But hey, how could a
black woman
have had a chance with those peers?