Beheading Sages

By John I. Blair 

 

I spent an hour
Beheading wild sages
To stop their spread
Throughout the yard.

How hard it is
To hinder seed
That’s ripe for growing.

Beheading rarely halts
Anything that’s ready.

©2018 John I. Blair, 5/15/2018

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