Wooing Nature

Respecting her time

You know she has her ways.

And if you come up against her in full force, she will never give you what you want.

You are, after all, so small.

Yet some hope in me tried to plant early.

Of course, the land is covered in snow, more than six inches.

Nourishing. Wet. It will be a good summer.

But for the non-native plants we put in the soil?

Death.

Healing',

Papa would tell me,

'is not a science,

but the intuitive art

of wooing Nature.'

W.H. Auden