Plants

Some strange sculpture,

The lessons today
Were all
About plants,
Much like this weekend
Was
All about plants
God deciding
What would grow
What would fade
Us not the ones
In charge
Of such things.
We dug out
The dead elderberry,
Planted
A mock orange
In its place.
The elderberry roots
Look like
Some strange sculpture.
We will keep it
As a reminder
We are not
In charge.
We will nurture
The mock orange
See what happens.
Still
We are not
In charge.