\u201c\u2026not meant to be perfect,\u201d she mumbled at me,<\/p>\n
As I hoed out the weeds from around the tree.<\/p>\n
But in my mind, it was a perfect planting,<\/p>\n
From start to finish, or someday would be.<\/p>\n
So I kept digging for the ideal, the end goal elusive,<\/p>\n
With such vigor and fervor, it bordered abusive.<\/p>\n
And she frowned<\/p>\n
and she fussed<\/p>\n
to be inside<\/p>\n
cooking<\/p>\n
saut\u00e9ing<\/p>\n
deep-baked<\/p>\n
or fried,<\/p>\n
this series of recipes<\/p>\n
she\u2019d never tried.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026but the weeds just keep growing,\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey do not!\u201d I lied.<\/p>\n
And I kept on digging<\/p>\n
But, so did she,<\/p>\n
\u2018til she got what she wanted\u2014<\/p>\n
Away from the garden and me!<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Plant Combinations for Your Landscape<\/em>, Tony Lord, Creative Homeowner Press, 2010.<\/p>\n “This book is not meant to be a series of recipes for perfect planting.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201c\u2026not meant to be perfect,\u201d she mumbled at me, As I hoed out the weeds from around the tree. But in my mind, it was a perfect planting, From start to finish, or someday would be. So I kept digging for the ideal, the end…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70946,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70932\/revisions\/70946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}