Urbanistan
we stopped off
at the corner shop the grocery
at Carro for the seedlings
made a pact about
them languishing
unplanted forever
as if the porch had stood in
for Nauru
when you left exhausted
by another medication change
how many in so few years
is this
I limped in
took their pots
at least I dumped
their roots soil
on soil
the bureau says sending rain
the small rosemary that
replaces the one
I got when I moved in
it lost sight of how to be
a plant
when propagating
the mother died when
I gave
the child away
ReplyDeleteA wonderful poem.
Heartbreaking
to forget how to be
to languish unplanted
refuse your roots
Oh yes, truly
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