Further Preparation

FURTHER PREPARATION

After Christmas the curtain parts and we

peer toward the plot on the other side 

of the driveway. The ground will soon 

give way for work. The fence will need

to be repaired and the greenhouse built 

from a collection of old windows. Cardboard

sags into soil and the trailer sits idle, thirsting

for wood chips. In a few months we will need

to reckon once again with our distaste

for pulling weeds and eating vegetables, 

but as yet we’re far from fruit. Today 

let us take the shovel and the hammer

and establish ourselves the perimeters

of a chance for a fruitful reckoning.