Friday, February 29, 2008

March

It is time for the planting of things

It is time to sit for an afternoon

and think about the days

so soon here and gone

of summer

of anticipating

of building

of making

I need an afternoon to think

about what must be done

and what to sow

already birds are calling me awake screeching

they are piping hot

they are shrill screaming

‘wake up mister…come outside and see

the sun shine longer

and tomorrow longer still’

I hear you

I hear you

I am inside thinking about the garden

about next steps and places

bones already walked so far

and just now starting over

it is nearly March

another April, May

Take a breath, just one

and summer powers in

summer in an afternoon

fading gold to blue-gray

light for the night till ten

then a garden filled and flowing

and thanking God for the blessing

to quiet winter

after so brief a summer passing.

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3 Comments:

Blogger Bobby D. said...

Nice! Will you be doing some gardening in the Mountains this summer? And what were those flowers that you have in abundance up there? (not Foxglove... or were they?) I can see them in my head but the name escapes.

2:08 PM  
Blogger Berlinbound said...

Yes and I can't wait to get my hands dirty.

And I am gardening here as well, in two pubic beds - large ones - and it's a challenge what with all the dogs and drinkers and so forth - but I love it.

Foxglove - you're right. They were quite wonderful last year. There must have been a hundred of them.

7:03 PM  
Blogger Ralph said...

I've done some gardening in "pubic beds," too, and enjoyed it immensely.

Seriously.... Vegetable gardening preparations are in full force here, too. Trying to grow tomatoes from seed for the first time, among others.

8:27 PM  

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