Thursday, January 9, 2014

Constant Gardener

Your roses look their best in July.
Some leaves aphid-eaten, but their red buds
and blooms were by a miracle of fish meal,
a magic of manure profuse.

You never cut them to display inside.
I always wondered why.  You made a playful
grimace like an ogress and said,
"What's most fun is to cut them back to nothing for winter."

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