Flower for the Day First Iris 6-5-18

As expected we have our first iris today. It is a double blooming cultivar. It will bloom again in the early fall. 

Iris 

 by William Carlos Williams 

a burst of iris so that  come down for  breakfast 

we searched through the   rooms for  that 

sweetest odor and at   first could not   find its 

source then a blue as  of the sea  struck 

startling us from among  those trumpeting  petals