Welcome back, max. All is all, indeed. Routinely.
Although I cant help feeling some jealously about the trip...
Doug
On 2012-04-03, at 6:33 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> Home after five weeks away
>
>
> Routines I fretted against
> month after stultifying month
> before we got away -
>
> now I'm back,
> I'm sinking into
> gratefully.
>
> Restocking the fridge,
> once such a chore,
> I'm about to whizz through,
>
> water those recalcitrant
> flower beds and roses,
> that in my absence
>
> ought to have carked it
> to punish me for my
> reluctance.
>
> Climb the step-ladder,
> secateurs at the ready,
> to grapple with the new
>
> long dangling prickly
> shoots of the roses
> above the garage entry -
>
> while I had my getaway
> they had their breakaway.
> And on my travels,
>
> did I anywhere see
> such flowers inviting
> such intimacy?
>
> Not in the florists
> of Manhattan,
> or the bedded bulbs
>
> behind the Public Library
> where I snapped
> the first daffodil
>
> (and the bronze bum
> of Gertrude Stein*).
> The wilds of Oregon
>
> vouchsafed me
> quick raptures
> at their sublimity,
>
> and hints of the unhomely
> despite recalling
> my childhood New Zealand.
>
> Travel in order
> to return home -
> it's been said before.
>
> Concur, concur, concur.
> A rose is a rose
> and secateurs are secateurs.
>
> Max Richards
>
> *
> http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/bryantpark/highlights/12323
>
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