German Summer Sonnet from the Sonnet Playground

Red, white, and green: La Casa serves lunch and

dinner under a canopy, under

the skies of Pfalzish Germany—the land

of standing pines, stormy skies, and thunder.

The Kellnerin can, in three languages,

ask what you'd like to eat—Was moechten Sie

essen?—so you can order. A jewel:

rare blue skies beckon. Remember the sea?

Sun, air, skies, and petunias smoothly ble…