Gardener

Are you listening?

The rhubarb has asked for you
and just now, the hummingbird.
The roses, they’ve sent you invitations,
perhaps they’ve been lost in the mail.
Are you eating well?, the sage wonders
and the mint asks about your posture.
Why might you be frowning?,
dandelions are the nosiest creatures.

They nudge for little things in want of doing
not for tasking in the name of tasking,
but simply for the sake of a little living:
a dog wants to be walked;
a camellia, to be pondered;
and grass, to be napped in.

That device hasn’t de-viced you
or devised a better way of being-
it’s just divided intention from attention
and reduced meditations into mediations.
Your neighbor’s forsythia hangs over the fence
wondering if you can shake off your caffeine jitters
to come out and look for shapes in the clouds
or simply enjoy just being together.