SPRING AND ALL

"They enter the new world naked,

cold, uncertain of all

save that they enter." ~William Carlos Williams

absinthe saturday grass cutting

with quiet reel-type mower

robins alighting silently

eat the bugs thus disturbed

by my work cannot spray 

the blooming creeping charlie

because wind buddha garden

perennials, st. francis garden

tender veg crops

awaiting mother's day sale

my blades of grass

mere ground cover struggling

with goosegrass yellow foxtail

nimbleweed plantains

the demented neighbor's forest

of indestructibly prolific dandelions

thistle henbit nutsedge

fall panicum bermudagrass

my limp whitmanesque blades

half green destroyed

by neighbor's brand new 

blindingly green sod

again absinthe saturday 

all day spring and all

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