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Visiting or looking at pictures of other gardens and reading other poems isn’t just about getting ideas for what to plant or how to arrange the seed-words. It’s about learning to identify weeds sooner (by elimination or by name) so that they can be transplanted somewhere where they aren’t weeds (worked on in another poem) or disposed of before they strangle other idea-plants.

This may seem more essential for gardens since growing seasons are bound by frost. In fact, poems have growing seasons too. A writer can lose touch with material for emotional or practical reasons. The initial impulse may be forgotten or superseded by other ideas.

Nonetheless, the end of the season does not mean that the failed garden plot or poem is doomed to remain barren forever. Spring always returns and, with enough patience, the poem’s growing season may as well.

Nothing created or (what is ultimately the same) arranged by a human is as certain as the seasons.

Tomorrow I’ll be re-seeding parts of my garden.

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