"Bubbling up in our own good time-- online."
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Volume 2 Issue 1
Page 13
Page 13
Making it till summer,
you plunge your hands
into the mound of knobby dirt
from the upended tulip box
the right amount of time
after flowering.
You isolate strong candidates
for next year’s bed, pulse
the matted dirt for bulblets
everyone says you should toss.
Under your spread fingers
small nodes catch and roll
as you chart size and potential,
imagine precise hues and flair.
The fattest bulbs go into a trug
marked N O V E M B E R.
Caving to this horticultural triage
you dump the others,
all but one, which you worry
and worry until its skin flakes off
between your pungent fingers.
you plunge your hands
into the mound of knobby dirt
from the upended tulip box
the right amount of time
after flowering.
You isolate strong candidates
for next year’s bed, pulse
the matted dirt for bulblets
everyone says you should toss.
Under your spread fingers
small nodes catch and roll
as you chart size and potential,
imagine precise hues and flair.
The fattest bulbs go into a trug
marked N O V E M B E R.
Caving to this horticultural triage
you dump the others,
all but one, which you worry
and worry until its skin flakes off
between your pungent fingers.
| Tulips By Quinton Hallett |