work that hoe…

Gardens galore

What’s not a garden?

What doesn’t want to grow?

What do we have

that will not be cultivated?

What part of me

does not strive

to be a seed?

What part of you

would not thrive

in the damp of desire?

What time will you not give

to pluck a weed, and then another?

What earth does not long at night

for the gentle push of the hoe?

What greater joy

than stroking the first green shoot,

and cuddling the first bloom?

What would you say to the child

who wants to be a gardener?

March 28, 2026

Inspired by “In Time” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, March 28, 2026

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