Spring Garden Shopping Poem by Bill Galvin

A guy walks over to the outside display of wheelbarrows
And grabs handles and feels heft and mulls over;

A woman stands at the end of rows of annuals and perennials,
And scans and ponders the flower-scape back home in her mind;

A trucker parks his eighteen wheeler alongside the nursery,
And unloads pallets stacked high with garden soil and loam;

A family stands amongst an assemblage of outdoor grilles,
And imagines the summer gatherings on their back deck;

A shopper pushes her cart full of pots and plants and flowers,
And displays an up-lifting smile and a light-hearted gait;

And as she wheels up next to her car and lifts the trunk lid,
A worker fills the gaps in the display stands with more stock;

Area gardens and planters, window sills, and empty hangers
Await a blend of new soil, young seedlings, and warm forecasts.

May 11,2017