POINTS ON THE GRID
George Bowering
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META MORPHOSIS
.............(a)
Squared off by taut
string tied to pegs
at the four corners
my quarter of the garden
brought forth every year
radishes. So that bending
over the furrows I
would know the seeds
would send back
leaves and later radishes
bulging out of the
ground. Every year.
.............(b)
This year my foursquare
garden squashes under
my crouched weight. I
dribble these seeds
into thumb-punched holes.
And I will water till
and weed themn till they
are radishes for the plucking.
So each red wet vege-
table on this plate on this
table will have come
from this hole from this row.
.............(c)
So shall the spring pass
So shall this come
this spring
this fair sister to them all
So shall this only
child spring
be sprung
So shall it come never again
So shall I come again another spring
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