Source: https://www.bucketlist127.com/goal/see-lichgate-on-high-road

Unmanicured Garden

Cool fresh air accompanied by cloudless turquoise skies

so neat and clean compared to the wildness of foliage

that surrounds me. Many green plants

from large oaks giving shade to ferns the size of seeds.

Under a canopy lies a stone bench, cold with chiseled legs. Metal rims

carve a path only big enough for one, around the edge of the garden

avoiding the center. Boulders scattered around

sneaking through the brush

some prefer camouflage of dark green fuzzy moss.

A single pot made to look like a chalice

stained a faint green from a lack of wash. Nothing inside

but a small layer of fishy mush home to blood suckers. On the right

is the congregation of green rocks

circling a stump, the diameter of a tennis ball

almost as if the owner cut the poor adolescent

tree down in their last goodbye.

I can tell why

with tires screeching nearby.

© 2021 Sebastian Chipoco