Looking Forward to the Garden

Gardening is something I’m not as good at as I’d like. Plainly, I don’t devote enough of myself to it.

I could garden—or I could fish! Write a poem! Do laundry! Look at birds! Tie flies! Read that Mikhail Elizarov I’ve been ignoring for six years!

Or: I could garden. Should garden. The same Wendell Berry quote rings in my ears:

I can think of no better …