An edge cut between lawn and garden bed,

dark and wet, pleases me. I scarce believe

it exists, so virtual it’s been.

 

Dahlias turn to the sun, blaze.

What is it to be stem, leaf, flower from spring

through autumn, tuber all winter.

 

Alliums dip earthward, shower seeds from starry

umbels. Onions in flower beds next season.

Transgressions happen.

 

My feet sink into the lawn’s green sward.

Each blade strains toward the lovely curve,

the damp, bare earth, ready to cross

 

from the real to the real, underground and

over, stitching cat mint, lamb’s ear,

bee balm.

 

Sue Lockwood’s poems have appeared in Heat, Island, Mascara Literary Review, Antipodes, 14 magazine (UK) and ear to earth, Central Coast Poets anthology 2017. Sue lives in Melbourne.