It's alive!
“Here something stubborn comes,
Dislodging the earth crumbs
And making crusty rubble.
It comes up bending double,
And looks like a green staple.
It could be seedling maple,
Or artichoke, or bean.
That remains to be seen.’’
-- From "Seed Leaves,'' by Richard Wilbur (1921-2017), a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry. He spent most his career teaching at New England colleges. He died in Belmont, Mass.