Gardening

There is no pleasure quite like

the deep transport of satisfaction, 

spade in hand, digging into the 

chocolate loam of fertile soil, 

absorbing the fragrance of its 

moist promise, inserting an 

immature tree, a shrub to flower 

in its time, vines to entangle 

themselves on fence and trellis, 

root clumps to be divided and 

annual blooms to take their place 

amongst stalwart perennial bloomers.

The season delightfully punctuated

by growth spurts reflecting the

transformation that sun and rain

accomplish, apprentices to nature.