The garden falls with the man.

Wendell Berry. This fragment is from the poem “Where,” in the collection, Clearing, 1977.

Globe mallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua), Glendale, Arizona.

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At the feeder.

Ornate tree lizard (Urosaurus ornatus), on the garden wall, Glendale, Arizona.

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Great egrets (Ardea alba), at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona.

“Motto”

I play it cool

And dig all jive.

That’s the reason

I stay alive.

My motto,

As I live and learn,

is:

Dig and Be Dug

In Return.

By Langston Hughes, in his jazz poetry suite Montage of a Dream Deferred (sometimes called Harlem), published in 1951.

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