Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-04-09
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be trndled the humps before is being As
ne YEARLY about this task the gardener may be allowed
his fierce hope that those may gup only the
of the rod but the reel and the fisherman too.
Nor that all there is to April nearly all Out in the
rivers for example, the shad openhandedy dispensing
roeand had book beer and asparagus spell spring
That is they should and do in places if not in ALL Not
here at hand however here in the April suburbs April
April AS though the month enough gloomy those
people inside the house pick the time for spring cleaning
Cleaning only that everything placed whichaway
but also that there sandwiches instead of meals cooked
stoves In distant Greenwich Village poets dining this
night shad eating than their share, much
Roe Go blow low foe Joe II peanut butter here custs
noted, April the month for cleaning and that brings
up the of the matter In April the gardener just has
too many demands his time. He must tidy up, which is
understood 1t is also understood that he little
of his devisng This during the when
restless day, he mapped changes the
landscape No. not stone wall this time for building the wall
of SO him aergy rocks from which he has
yet recovered.
What he did that day decide adding ten feet to
one end of the garden moving heavy shrubs from
other end, and building gravel path down the middle On
that warm day in January he fool enough map the
whole project with actual stakes andwose st-to every
one about it, Now those stakes stand like the pointing fingers
OF destiny and he trapped in the labyrinth of his blue
prints He must landscape hear the end of
To meet these fully understood demands would take all the
gardeners me every hour of it throughout April Something
still added from inside the house Presumably you
the garden through the glass; window cleaning
garded yard outside work. Not the outer side of
the for which faint shadow of case could be made
but the inside as we'll Poet speaking softly of Aps gentle
rustic have heard the house cleaner summonng
gardener to come and do the windows?
EAR her calling, and well you may-even above the sound
of cheering for home the stadium The windows
must be done this minute this day already heavy with
whtened bones toys sticks and bleaky accusing marker
stakes This particularly unwecome voice of April carries
across the yard rounds the side goes to the rear of
garage where broken chair sunlight the gardener
sits thinking In April can't thinking with his eyes
closed for more than minute before they after him.
April April in the suburbs April in the rain April which
means that spring has come, and that May flowers the
way Yes the gardener has heard it ALL and much of he
chooses not to believe. One April sound however he
recognize as true sound of spring This telephone
ringing in the evening On the other end city people, call
ing very very casually how everyone is They
been silent since the fall busy doubt with major prob
lens as getting tickets for Redhead now they are think
ing OF long weekend in the country Theirs the sound
OF spring than the voice of the turtle the peep pepper
theirs is the hopeful chant of April
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