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Wednesday, November 24, 2015.
I cannot kill these pansies
Little bit of life
That they are
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As winter’s cold and darkness
Settles outside my door
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I hauled them inside
In their five gallon plastic buckets
After I left them out there
Long enough to freeze
Several times
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Their blossoms have given up
Yet not their buds
And not the emerald green of their leaves
And certainly not their tenacious roots
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I MUST love them
I MUST care for them
I MUST
I will
It is a part of who I am
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April through November they have blessed me with their beauty
They did not ask for life
They do not crave death
Theirs is a certain kind of bravery
Courage to the end
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And these earthworms
Are they as silent as they seem?
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What, my dear, can I give to them
Remnants from a summer garden confined
Gathered in a gelatinous mass
Having seeped themselves down through and out of the bottom holes of these buckets onto the plastic beneath them
Only to have found no real possibility of escape?
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Do they live?
Are they dead?
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I bury them again in now warm so-black bucket dirt
I can wait
We will see
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I must apologize
I am so sorry for my own confusions
My uncertainties
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I, too, share this life and death cusp
With all of you
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This seek for safety
This holding on to life
This approach to death
To transformation
First
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O worms! I feed you water soaked cardboard and bits of paper for a winter in these buckets
In this apartment
Stashed so cleverly in a spare corner
On my kitchen floor
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Unlike my species
If there is even one of you left alive
You will reproduce.
More.
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I
Would be glad
For that.
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Note: I cannot create my chosen spacing here without using “+” as markers
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