Louise’s strawberry garden fenced to keep out chipmunks, squirrels,racoons,deer,rabbits,skunks and a variety of birds; allowing in rain, helpful pollinators, and insect enemies of other harmful insects. Rest assured the gate will be turned right side up and our American garden will once again flourish and produce sweet fruit. Patience and effort, constant weeding out those harming the garden. It takes time and is well worth the effort.
The fence is placed all around
The strawberries are in the ground.
The gate is upside down.
The harvest will be delayed
Dismantling what we made
hour by our, day by day.
Chaos alway brings change.
Gardens too rigorously defended
make fences necessarily upended
to reach fruit not intended
for anyone but a few
who fence out themselves, too.
What is the gardener to do?
A gate is meant to let us through
to the crop we worked for,
and many of us died for,
a free country we yearn for.
We thought we planted within our reach.
We thought we had enough freedom to teach.
We never thought we would beseech
tearing down everything we had built
to avoid admitting our guilt.
The gate MAGA made is all atilt.
The fence is too high, clearly.
We are just so frustrated and weary.
We may never eat another strawberry.
annarino writes 