SUNDAY AFTERNOON ALONG NORTHWEST BRANCH

Grilled meat carries on the spring breeze.
Families gather around picnic tables.
Children run in playgrounds
and in the grass along the river,
pick dandelions, skip stones.
There's a baseball game on one field,
soccer on another.
People stroll on the bikepath.
It's an all-American scene
with faces that are Mayan, Pipil, and Lenca.