Clean-up
The autumn chores are complete. Plants cut back. The
planting beds cleared of debris. Wood stacked by the back door. Container
plants we want to save brought inside. Each year we ask: how much longer can we do this? Each year we
move more slowly; the clean-up takes longer; we have more aches afterwards.
Knees, backs, shoulders–all complaining loudly. Each year we think about a
condo.
a sunny window–
begonias inside
a bee outside
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