A Glimmer

Planting a garden is revolution —
hope triumphs over despair. Flower
or veggie — all green comes from a smoothie
of crushed rock and humus — spiked with
nitrogen, phosphorous, and micronutrients.

Even seed anatomy amuses — the coat
that keeps all dry and warm, cotyledon,
the battery for growth, hypocotyl
and plumule — stem and shoot, and last
the embryonic root, the radicle,
linking us to the first revolution.

Seeds are small packages of optimism.
Decisions that light and warmth will prevail
and jonquils or turnips, lilies or peppers
will rise, one or all. There is hope in
nourishing life besides our own — belief that
a better day will come, spring will birth
summer and then even fall. That hope can
be grown just as easily as lost.

Verse Virtual June 2022