Rootbound
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2023 1:27 pm
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Rootbound
Seriously–space your tomato cones and cuke sites–
spread them well beyond that first blush instinct
for French Intensive togetherness.
The interstices will seem to scream oh colossal waste!
but kindly wait for time to reach its inexorable fullness,
and like new friends who just pop up, or strangers
who propose on bended knee to become your new best friends,
spawned of errant seeds cast by wind, or birds a-pooping,
or the sacred vagaries of cosmic happenstance,
these volunteer vegetable seedlings, these hearty
hail-fellows-well-met, these genial elbowers,
these unbidden roisterers–benign intruders,
unexpected heads bursting wildly
into my elegantly over-planned life.
Smile at them once, just once–
they become part of oxygen-exhaling, flowing
green life blood of an unfolding backyard Mandala.
Self-ascribed prophets of serendipity, apostles
of the congenial cuddling of Gaea, they would teach me
poise, equanimity, and why light needs darkness,
and darkness needs light.
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Rootbound
Seriously–space your tomato cones and cuke sites–
spread them well beyond that first blush instinct
for French Intensive togetherness.
The interstices will seem to scream oh colossal waste!
but kindly wait for time to reach its inexorable fullness,
and like new friends who just pop up, or strangers
who propose on bended knee to become your new best friends,
spawned of errant seeds cast by wind, or birds a-pooping,
or the sacred vagaries of cosmic happenstance,
these volunteer vegetable seedlings, these hearty
hail-fellows-well-met, these genial elbowers,
these unbidden roisterers–benign intruders,
unexpected heads bursting wildly
into my elegantly over-planned life.
Smile at them once, just once–
they become part of oxygen-exhaling, flowing
green life blood of an unfolding backyard Mandala.
Self-ascribed prophets of serendipity, apostles
of the congenial cuddling of Gaea, they would teach me
poise, equanimity, and why light needs darkness,
and darkness needs light.
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