AVOID the ant hill,
watch out! there’s poison ivy!
What next?
Can it get WORSE?
Oh, no, no digging here –
It’s much too ROCKY.
Phew, a ROUGH day
for this backyard gardener!

Georg’ann

Garden Walk

PAUSE in arbor of enchantment,
BOUND by ancient wisteria
vining up limestone pillars.
She is out of place in yard
devoid of character.
Astroturf and pristine pool.
Wonder what she thinks
of what’s come to be.

We, too, are incongruous.
Yet garden gatekeepers
welcome us kindly,
ignore his smoker’s COUGH
and the ROUGH exterior
of our motley little group.

At each stop different notions
of what belongs, everything
placed in appreciation of beauty.

Heather