how to be in a garden
every day
step into them -
years
and weather.
Learn pause.
Accept what you cause-
change
failure
more change.
Still.
Understand
your plant influence
is limited
easily circumvented
by birds, insects, storms, seasons.
Everything green isn't about you.
Surrender to what delights.
Most growth
accepts death
and fallow.
Notice
how
shallow
shadows
extend
to summer's cosmos
nodding
to autumn
and ends.
