summer time

(for samar)

today

there is a retirement expo

at kembla grange

but only yesterday

i learned that you had gone

too far

in my garden

are some plants i am trying

to keep alive

i thought the native pea

was dead in its pot

but there are a few

new shoots

and the transplanted

tree fern still has

promise in an

uncurling frond

i am sorry that

i could not

sustain

your watering