How Her Garden Grew
February 13, 1996
My mother liked to tell
about the string beans -
how Grandpa laughed the first
time she planted them. Seems
when they poked their tender heads up
to see the world, she pushed them back
into the earth again. But they,
like my mother's daughters,
would not go unheeded -
and once they made clear to her
who they were, she made sure
they got what they needed -