Trimming the Pussy Willow

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn
and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
                                                 (Wendell Berry)

Out of step on the march to the garden
I follow your tender prints into loam
to help you cut a bank of pussy
willow and use the trimmings (long
slender sprigs, easily bent) to shape
perfect arches above the climber beans

On days we go to plant or weed or hoe
we are Adam and Eve growing old
in our skins’ topography of furrows
and creases. See the robins on the wire,
spearmint behind the shed where the cat sleeps,
grapevines clambering over the trellis?

Our kisses are lean now, almost skinny;
soon, we know, what grows will grow on its own

 

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