Horticultural Rhyme-scheme Permutations
– Stephen Colley, Altadena CA
(Used by permission)
My garden may have too much mulch or seem a thistly, gristly gulch, have sometimes more manure than flower, its fleshy fruit less sweet than sour. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, in spite of all my anxious care, it gets neglected for a season – turns, like me, more foul than fair. No matter, though. However plain and anything but evergreen, this potted plot of blooms unseen by all but me, it’s worth the pains.