Re: [New-Poetry] The Poet’s Lawn

[David Weinstock]

Nice one!

I'm going to put that on the bulletin board in the garage, next to the
mower.



On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:05 AM, <JforJames at aol.com> wrote:

>
> 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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