Tall Verbena, Göteborg, October 19th, 2001

In the New Lawn I see more and more
of the enterprising kind of gardening offspring
that comes with the domesticated soil
amassed
enriched
remixed
and distributed
in the urban beutification of Göteborg

this one
I would have taken as the beginnings of a bellflower
if I hadn't been told by a trustworthy person
this is what the Tall Verbena looks like
before it grows tall

ah! - I have seen them in the wild:
the picture to the right is from the end of August
seven minutes away by tram
another patch of reshuffled soil