[New-Poetry] The Poet’s Lawn

[JforJames at aol.com]

The Poet’s Lawn
 
The nice people from Pro-Lawn
placed a paper hanger checklist
on my  front doorknob…
You  have:
[x] Dandelions
[x]  Violets.
[  ] Chickweed`
    [x] Jewelweed
We can  help. Call 
1-800-NEW-LAWN.
I walked out the  front door to inspect 
the lawn. I hadn’t noticed the violets, 
their  small purple petals so close to the earth, 
what a shame to have overlooked  them.
 
I’m a bit of a do-it-yourselfer,  
so I drove over to Sprawl  Hardware
and asked the aisle ghost 
if they had chickweed seeds.
He  said no, but we have
the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Oh, I  said, is that a hardy hybrid,
able to resist the scorching rays of the  sun
and tolerant of near drought conditions? 
He reached out his hand, his  fingers 
like short and fat grub worms, 
he pointed to the instructions  
printed on side of the bag, it said
Shovel them under and let me  work—   
I am the grass; I cover all.
 
I wanted to fill in the bare spots
with chickweed. But grass 
will have to do.




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