watching the plants

February 18, 2009 at 6:04 pm · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: changing, growing, plants, sprouts

i tried to write a poem for this blog, but deleted it. sorry, you get prose instead.

there are these little starter-plants in the window-sill where i work. im at a computer all day, so, yes, i stare-off far too often. the other day, i watched the plants grow. well, what intrigued me was that i saw a little sprout poke out of the soil when i came to work, and then i looked at the pots again a few hours later and the sprouts were a good 1.5″ tall! i mean… that is pretty impressive.

so i watched them. i sat. and i looked. i wondered why i couldnt see the plants grow. a couple times i could have sworn that i saw a growth spurt, but i really think that it was my eyes adjusting. then i started thinking about how weird it is that living things are forever changing. animals and plants: they are never the same. not for one moment. growing. then atrophying.

what all do i miss in this changing world? what do i not see because i dont take the time to watch the sprouts grow?

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