Riccio Verde
Karen Roethke
Garden in the Round
Linda Satterlee-McFadin
I grew a garden once,
I designed it in the round.
I planted it with tomatoes,
cuc’s and all the zucchini I had found.
I watered it all summer
and pinched bad leave away.
The rewards I reaped from my garden
I remember to this day.
Green stalks and leaves shot to the sky,
Veggies grew galore
We ate salads from that garden
‘til the children begged “no more.”
When we finally had moved,
I was sad to let the garden go.
You see, I have no green thumb,
no more to grow plants just so.
I couldn’t repeat my success with plants,
I soon enough found
And so, must only remember that
lovely garden in the round.
