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| Talking about my geraniums
They are doing well inside. I cut off the dead flowers so they have to grow new ones to produce seed. That way they keep flowering, budding. It's the same with poetry. Is the poem finished? Is it flowering? Pretty? Cut it off and put it away. Then a new one will grow and soon you'll have another one, a flower. However, the plant does get old. The flowers remain nice, but the plant gets ugly with some of its leaves totally dried out. When you remove them they sound like a bag of crisps crackling. Isn't it amazing that such an old plant, so ugly and grey, can still produce such nice colours? The plant hasn't got much choice. Hasn't it? Ask it something and it will answer, its nice flowers, red, the rest of the plant getting stalky, as if it uses walking sticks to walk the circle of the pot. Circling the dustbin. |