Raised Bed (2)

Raised Bed

“One sows and another reaps.” — John 4:37

A small space, but room enough 

to cultivate the perennial 

hope that there’s a place in the garden

metaphor for a brown-thumbed 

believer stalking the long rows 

of the Lowes lumber aisle 

to load his cart with cedar 

planks, his work not quite trained 

to climb the well-staked trellis 

of sow, prune, and gather, but rather 

just to cinch the rough-hewn 

boards of his life together in a way

that helps define the borders

for someone else who doesn’t know 

where to start but has some dirt 

and wants to give new life a go.