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House Plant

Don Thompson

    A plant safely rooted in terra cotta isn’t confined, but free. Beyond the narrow-minded horizon of its window sill, the birds run amuck—grackles that never shut up, those jabbering lunatics; sparrows so insane they bathe in dust; distracted hummingbirds that jerk back from every sweet flower as if shocked. Their motto must be: We can rest when we’re dead.

    But a house plant wants peace and quiet. Like me, it thrives on a modicum of light, neither faint nor harsh with no clouded hints or that glaring honesty I can live without. And not dirt but soil, a nurturing mix of peat moss, perlite, and loam.

    Otherwise it needs only someone who cares enough to show up with a watering can now and then. Neither left alone to wither nor saturated with affection. Is that asking so much? Just to sit still, bothering no one, never complaining about the uproar outside, and let birds be birds?

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