If you have perennials, biennials,
things that seed themselves
and return to you in odd moments,
sprout anew after a while of dying back
-- then you can't indiscriminately
pull up unknown sprouts in the name of neatness.
Be patient.
Study the situation.
Is it a weed or a daisy in waiting?
or Queen Anne's Lace
or the wee tip of fern
about to uncurl?
The essential trick?
Never uproot a thing
that will, sometime later,
fill you with the earnest, wild
energy of delight
& make you glad you are alive...
--- Mad Mar (Mistryel) Walker
