Fo-Ti
Sure we’d lost her
last winter,
this medicinal Chinese
plant a friend
for seventeen years,
in a pot cut back
to a dead-looking shred
We moved and fed her
provided a trellis to climb
Fo-Ti gone wild
now we scramble
to contain her
Fo-Ti
Fo-Ti
Sure we’d lost her
last winter,
this medicinal Chinese
plant a friend
for seventeen years,
in a pot cut back
to a dead-looking shred
We moved and fed her
provided a trellis to climb
Fo-Ti gone wild
now we scramble
to contain her
Yay, Fo-Ti! And you for thinking to move her to a place she clearly loves!
The tenacity of life is extraordinary, and you captured that beautifully. And our relationships to plants---you sound like you have it.