One Mistake

NAPOWRIMO Day 28

One Mistake and You’re Back

I have been busy this year. The garden

stretches clear around

the back.

Radishes, carrots,

cucumbers and garlic, tomatoes,

potatoes, beans and basil,

rosemary, lavender, bolting cilantro,

a hybrid tea rose, lilies, flags

and peonies—

so many things, all

in the race to grow.

Winter was heavy, full

of sleep-inducing snow,

and then the flow of the melt

combined with spring rains

left everything soggy and cold.

Two days of ninety degrees!

The flowers, at least, began

to feel bold.

So eager they were, that when

the heat broke they

almost choked in their hurry

to die back.

Now the ground warms slow;

so does all the garden. Fool me once;

fool me twice.

But the sun shines

and we grow

to reach the sky.