As I Mow the Garden Every Two Weeks
The dwarf daffodils
gone blind
give way to
pink grape hyacinths
until the bloody poppies
on solitary stalks
bleed beyond the borders
shadowed by the honeysuckle early blooms
a royal flush of purple violas
peek dangerously close to the lawn
but it’s the dandelions
that suffer defeat
their head chopped off
by roaring blades
each time, they come back
stubbornly sunnier
and deliciously more desirable
to bumblebees and pink ladies butterflies.
Enza Vynn-Cara is the pen name of Vincenzina Caratozzolo. While working in the medical field, Enza gained a BA in English literature and Creative Writing. Her short stories, flash fiction and poetry appear in Blink Ink, Fifty-Word Stories, Village Square, and in two anthologies. In her spare time, she travels, tutors, and is a copy editor in fiction/poetry for Village Square Lit Magazine.