Becoming Grandma - Jan Knispel (Valentine, Nebraska)
Is planting the garden
And cursing the weeds
Back bending in the sun
And shadows
In her gardens were
Potatoes, beets, cucumbers
Squash, tomatoes,
Hollyhocks, glads, daisys,
Zinnias, dalias and lilies.
Bert hated snakes,
From time to time.
An emergency call from Bert
Cried “rid the garden of those
creatures.”
I don’t mind them and
Can pick them up--
In my garden
Frogs and toads
Beetles and little boys
Who don’t know a weed
From a plant and
Hop and stomp
Their way across my
Little grandma world.