Weeds

worked in two of my beds today, preparing them for the flower seedlings i started indoors a couple of months ago. grass, clover, and gil-over-the-ground have set up shop all around the perimeter of the beds. gil & clover are easy enough to pull up from dry soil, but the grass has deep roots and holds fast. life creeping in from all sides, during the seasons when it grows. reminds me of when i was in mexico and they told us (and we subsequently saw) that the land was so moist and so fertile that when they placed newly-cut branches in the ground as fenceposts, the posts proceeded to sprout leaves and grow.

grass is thick and tall, trees are heavy and lush with leaves, crickets chirping in the dark.