Framing

It seems a good time of year: Spring, walking into Holy Week, with Good Friday, then the Resurrection on the horizon, a good time to think about edging and framing.  What needs to be bigger, what needs to be smaller?  Sometimes doing something concrete, digging in the dirt, building a garden bed, gets a person thinking.  I like the idea of opening the gates, making the garden larger.  How would you frame it?

When I edge the garden bed,

I will add a foot on each side,

Attach the cedar planks

To the two by twos

With brass screws

Like before.

It lasted more than ten years,

Not a bad frame of time,

Really a good frame

As such things go.

I will leave the rhubarb

Where it is,

Firmly established.

With the yard gates open on three sides,

The animals wander through,

A small version of a Walt Disney movie

Except ours has a hawk on occasion,

He waits for bunnies

To hop through.

It is spring.

We reestablish

Where the edges are;

Which gates need to be open,

Which closed;

What is allowed to wander through.

Of course the birds and squirrels

Know no boundaries.

Where can we think to keep it private,

Our own garden

With the sick crabapple in back?

In the name of all that lives,

I will edge the garden bed

Bigger this year,

Leave the gates open.

Not a bad way to frame it,

Really

Not a bad way.