Monday, 7 September 2015

Agapanthus (September)


 Plush leaves of plump clumps line a ‘difficult’ patch of garden, fill out medians of main roads, fountainous roundabouts. Bone-white stems survive, top ends bone-white sprays of popped dried fibre. Black seedpods, some remain trapped inside, windy rain will dislodge by September. It’s a sight winter enjoys on private walks. Gone their skyblue flowers. Long ago as last summer. Low maintenance, but council gardeners must snap them out soon. Enough’s enough. Dock them. The ‘we want’ public demands green plush, plump clumps with starry azure Christmas dangles, for its peripheral vision. Weeds, on the other hand, unsightly. Drive by quick.

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