Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Robert Verdon, #45, A Gardener Knows What to Do



generalisations are rough
even from a madeleine
enter a place
set a moment in space
the feeling of synthesis is there
outlasting the butterfly bloom of youth
not afloat in a fog of abstract absentia
neither analysis nor assembly

of the grandest horticultural triumphs
such as the terrible wheeling galaxy
not made with military precision, 
brute force, and ignorance,
not signed by the maker
an atom of the whole
a drop of blood from the beloved’s temple
one still says in awe
eppur si muove

a green shoot trembles in a friable prospect
between the rattling firs and frozen cobwebs
a gardener knows what to do
but what if the gardener
is you?

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