Cracked asphalt yields to purple loosestrife
Rusted posts hold tomato cages now
You map each cotyledon by moonlight
Germination writes its vow
Nitrogen and potassium
You measure out in tin pail sips
No projector beam can reach this deep
Only root and rhizome grip
You guard the greenhouse screen tonight
Where celluloid gave way to green
No feature plays but photosynthesis
The sweetest reel you've ever seen
Morning glory climbs the ticket booth
Bindweed binds the concession stand
You pinch back suckers on the Cherokee
Prune with dirty, steady hand
[Pre- Calcium and magnesium
You brew in comfrey tea batches
No neon sign burns through the poly
Only chlorophyll catches
You guard the greenhouse screen tonight
Where celluloid gave way to green
No feature plays but photosynthesis
The sweetest reel you've ever seen
Deer netting draped on guy-wire frames
Keeps the browsers from your kale
You stake the indeterminate vines
Before the summer gales
You guard the greenhouse screen tonight
Where celluloid gave way to green
No feature plays but photosynthesis
The sweetest reel you've ever seen
Aphid colonies on pepper leaves
Ladybird larvae clean the crop
You count the days to first ripe fruit
Hand lens hanging at your hip
You guard the greenhouse screen tonight
Where celluloid gave way to green
No feature plays but photosynthesis
The sweetest reel you've ever seen
Frost creeps in through torn vent plastic
You haul the kerosene heater near
Murmur species names like prayer beads
Daucus carota, Allium, dear
You guard the greenhouse screen tonight
Where celluloid gave way to green
No feature plays but photosynthesis
The sweetest reel you've ever seen
The sweetest reel you've ever seen
Roots hold fast in reclaimed ground
Harvest comes without a sound
