Postcard From The Garden

Derek Bell: Carolan 's Receipt






I am sitting
with a philosopher
in the garden.
He says
again and again
I know that
that’s a tree,
pointing to a tree
that is near us.
Someone else arrives
and hears this,
and I tell him:
This fellow
isn’t insane.
We are only
doing philosophy.

--Ludwig Wittgenstein
On Certainty





strawberries and poppies

red leaf lettuce

mint and
garlic chives

catnip and columbine

mescul mix

buddha speckled
with birdshit

prairie mallow
and
last year's roses