Line Drawn in the Lawn
Fertilized lawn
on theleft
mowed every
Saturday morning.
Automatically watered
every other sunrise.
Leaves raked
exactly to edge
almost like
catching snowflakes
mid-air
to prevent unsightly build-up
around
yard-of-the-month
sign.
Sometimes green,
sometimes brown,
rarely a height
to blur the line.
Let them fall
like rice
at a wedding!
Ankle deep in
rustling, tickling,
wind-blown confetti
begging for leaf angels
beneath arms
and legs flying…
flying across yards --
flags of surrender --
prayers for a Christmas leaf blower.