irish poem #1

john and peg’s shamrock I note
every week – eight spindly stems
though with good sized leaves
seems healthy but stagnant never
any change now my shamrock is
lush its dozens of sturdy stalks
bear hundreds of leaves forty or
more white blooms it’s clearly
a bonny mommy theirs must be
a lonely languishing hibernian
maybe I could take mine over for
a conjugal visit do I need a bee?

This article appears in Mar 16-22, 2017.