Nature is a Gardener
Plants are her purest expression,
spending their days eating sunlight and
expelling a dazzling display
of scents,
colors
and flavors.
Gophers are just tools to plow the earth.
Birds and squirrels sow the seeds.
Deer are nice quiet lawnmowers.
Owls, snakes and ladybugs? Pest control.
Goats do the pruning.
Beavers are merely complex irrigation systems,
and bees... the hardworking genetic engineers.
Everybody does their share of the fertilizing
and composting
at one point or another,
but other than that, I have to ask,
“What kind of gardening tool am I?”
Kevin Gleason Art 