A Garden is a Department of Metaphysics

August 28, 2024.Reading time 1 minute.

A garden is a Department of Metaphysics
Promethean fire and shadows in a cave of light
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall

A Rotor-Tiller and the Feast of the Presentation

February 6, 2024.Reading time less than 1 minute.

By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Names have not been restored, as Aslan says / Some are pleased to call this Ground-Hog Day / Although there are no ground hogs here / But the Presentation is everywhere and forever

Wake Up, Back Yard!

March 21, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Brave seedlings from last year’s sunflowers arise / Among the tiny wings of zinnia buds / And the pushy skunk cabbages who hang around / Like playground bullies who ought to go find jobs

An Unskilled Rotor-Tiller Tiller of the Soil

April 19, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

The morning was fresh and cool and damp and still
I wheeled the tiller into the garden patch
Fresh gasoline, then primed the little bulb
And turned the red plastic lever just so

Summer In the Garden II

July 28, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

But we consult the winds, the clouds, the stars
Whose songs and shapes and brilliant silences
Allow us to savor all mysteries
The hymns of Creation from long ago…

Archaeology, or, Digging Holes in the Ground and Finding Stuff

July 10, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

…This season’s gardening at my rural estate along Jasper County Beer Can & Garbage Dump Road 400 has been similarly rewarding in matters of archaeology, only without any human remains….