Seeds

This evening has been focused on seeds! A short time ago we ordered a light stand for starting seeds. I have wanted one for years and now it is here sitting in pieces all around the living room. On the deck waiting is a sack of soil and I am just waiting for all of these pieces to be assembled so I can set up the flats that have tiny green shoots beginning to show and fill more flats with seeds... So, my thoughts are on seeds again

I stand
gazing over the garden patch
laid bare of its blanket of snow
in this unseasonable winter weather.

Garlic and onion
think it is spring
and have put up
green shoots.

Small leaves
of mint and kale
have risen
above the dark earth.

The chipmunk has
ventured out of his cozy den
to gather seeds
fallen from the bird feeders.

Shrews,
noses twitching,
have ventured out
from under the rocks.

The ground hog has seen his shadow;
more winter is coming on
but I brought out the garden catalogue
and am blissfully ordering seeds.

(thoughts from a couple of weeks ago)