A rambling meadow scenery Rank with irrigated greenery, Showed a semi-sawed-off double dozen Of saplings stretched since Spring, some 5 Waist-high to heaven, that autumn's Clear-cut mowing would take care of (Not much of disordered growth Survives the park's enforced swath). Nature's mistakes seed a scene 10 With a richer oddness than she means. Plants that harbour high ambitions Need time and shade for such positions. Ignore me long enough, and I might Just get to be something; kids grow at night. 15 Adults enlarge by thinking through (So I've heard said, and think it true). A modest eraser can undo A millennium's gain by rubbing through. I bite my new ones down to wood 20 And trust to cross-outs, understood Arrows, and wild whole-page insertions. Erasure's just too much exertion And never pays for the lost word That down the line might have proved good. 25 Human education is a crop Best harvested without a lop. Shapely shape the upward trees By what mind kens, and heart perceives. The grandest but add leaf to leaf 30 To make their roundness right- Just so the round of human life Requires a necessary height.
From the collection "Assembling the Earth"
Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]
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