I wish you could see my garden. And I use the term "garden" very loosely. It's more a refutation of any theory of nature that makes it seem stingy or spare. There are plants back there that are taller than I am. And the yard was cleared last winter! Just in the past two months these plants or weeds or or or whatever the hell they are are just shooting up to the sky. I swear you can practically see them growing, hear their seed pods and buds and flowers creaking and finally bursting open. The soil is BLACK and filled with bugs and worms. I feel like if I could plant myself in it somehow all my aches and pains, all my creases and lines, all my dry patches and calusses would vanish an I would somehow be restored.
I also am suspicious that my backyard is some sort of haven or petri dish for the plant that will take over the world. The terrestrial triffid. Although, I guess in the end it turned out the triffids were terrestrial. I've never seen the movie, but the book rules.
Hope I didn't ruin it for you.
Like you were totally going to read it anyway.
Unfortunately I have no idea what's in my yard. I've never ever lived anywhere with a garden. Military housing. They pave EVERYTHING. I know about the morning glories but that's it. Everything else looks like obscenely fecund tropical plants with leaves bigger than your head. The dude who lived in the house before us was a Japanese man who totally cultivated a garden and then let it go to seed when he lost his job. So god only knows what's out there. Someone said she thought one plant was some sort of squash variant. There is one primrose, one tulip, one STALK OF CORN, a purple lilac bush, a pink lilac bush (I never see pink ones anymore and now I have one!), another bush I've seen around that grows green flowers in spherical clumps (absolutely stunning I might add), a cherry tree, and a huge swath of resplendant, humid, generous, overwhelming, luscious, sexual, burgeoning, tremendous, succulent, feverish nature nature nature nature.
I don't want to touch it, but I know my neighbors will kill us if we don't so something to you know get things under control.
Sexually repressed Philistines.
Posted by jlp716 at June 2, 2006 05:52 PM