Flower for the Day Periwinkle 4-15

An important part of a garden is the infrastructure. I have large beds of periwinkle on the north and west sides of our house. I love the periwinkle (Vinca minor) because it is deer resistant, smothers most weeds, stays green all winter, does not climb up trees, and blooms twice a year. The blooms can blanket an area.

These blooms are best seen up close.

Recently I have been privileged to attend a poetry group - my first ever. The other day we discussed a work by 

Charles Wright, an American poet. In his poetry he mixes everyday reality, the natural world, history, and the absolute/invisible and their inter-relationship with language.

Yardwork

I  think that someone will remember us in another time,

Sappho once said — more or less—

Her words caught

Between the tongue's tip and the first edge of the invisible.

I hope so, myself now caught

Between the edge of the landscape and the absolute,

Which is the same place, and the same sound,

That she made.

Meanwhile, let's stick to business.

Everything else does, the landscape, the absolute, the invisible.

My job is yard work—

I take this inchworm, for instance, and move it from here to there.

Charles Wright

Chickamauga

Farrah,Straus and Giroux

New York  1995